Altering /etc/network/interfaces stops some apps from working

[Mark Fraser]

On Thursday 31 December 2015 14:14:12 Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On 12/31/2015 09:59 AM, Mark Fraser wrote:
> > > In 15.10, the names have been changed from eth0. To something like.
> > 
> > enp20s.
> > 
> > > That's a guess because I am not at my computer right now.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Look through your DMESG and find the new name and it will work.
> > 
> > I still have a udev rule that changes it to eth0, but the odd thing is
> > that Firefox works fine and I can fetch & send emails. I just couldn't
> > see any images or click on links.
> 
> I would think a good thing to try would be to remove the rule, change
> interfaces to be the new name and see if it works.

I did a fresh install of Kubuntu 15.10 on another partition, until I altered interfaces it 
worked, but as soon as I changed it - even to the new naming system - it stopped working. 
Firefox and Choqok continuted to work.
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