When eth0 is unmanaged, system connections for other NICs aren't displayed nor used
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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network-manager (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: network-manager
If eth0 is assigned a static IP in /etc/network/
then NM doesn't display nor use any system-connections defined for *other* NICs.
I include the output from trying to add a new connection:
1. I run nm-connection-
2. I press the Add button, fill some static IP info, ***check the [v] Available to all users*** checkbox, and click Apply.
(the "Invalid setting IPv4 Settings" message is displayed while filling the dns server)
3. The result is that without getting any error message on the GUI, the connection is not displayed at all. So one would think that it was discarded; however, if I look at the file system, it's there, but it's like NM doesn't read it at all. See the output of "sudo ls -lha /etc/NetworkMan
Follows the terminal output of the above steps:
teacher@server:~$ nm-connection-
(nm-connection-
** (nm-connection-
** (nm-connection-
** (nm-connection-
** (nm-connection-
** (nm-connection-
** (nm-connection-
** (nm-connection-
** (nm-connection-
** (nm-connection-
** (nm-connection-
** (nm-connection-
** (nm-connection-
** (nm-connection-
** (nm-connection-
** (nm-connection-
** (nm-connection-
teacher@server:~$ sudo ls -lha /etc/NetworkMan
total 12K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2009-06-23 12:32 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K 2009-06-21 18:26 ..
-rw------- 1 root root 337 2009-06-23 12:32 Wired connection 1
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
MediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" - Release i386 (20090420.1)
Package: network-manager 0.7.1~rc4.
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: network-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686
WpaSupplicantLog:
Changed in network-manager (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Alexander Sack (asac) → nobody |
Some extra information:
If I don't check the "[ ] Available to all users" checkbox, then the connection is created / displayed just fine.
But if, later on, I re-open nm-connection- editor and check the "[v] Available to all users" checkbox, the connection is hidden (=unusable) again. I can see that the proper /etc/NetworkMan ager/system- connections/ <file> was created for the connection; but it doesn't show up neither in nm-connections- editor nor in the network manager applet.
Also, it doesn't matter if the unmanaged connection is a wired or a wireless one; as long as one interface has a static IP in /etc/network/ interfaces, all NM _system_ connections for the other interfaces are hidden/unusable.