libdnet creates fake MAC address

[leex]

The libdnet package was pulled in as a dependency by some package. result: both my ubuntu machines had the same fake mac HWaddr aa:00:04:00:0a:04, that messed up my network. I deleted the relevant packages (all that had anything to do with libdnet) and it works again.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: dnet-common (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Nov 9 00:46:46 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110426)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: dnprogs
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (25 days ago)

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

The dnet-common package includes no integration with upstart. That means the following prohibition at the top of /etc/init.d/decnet:

# This script MUST be run before TCP/IP is started.

is a problem.

For precise, the problems are mitigated by the fact that decnet only starts if explicitly configured (Debian bug #637179); but in oneiric, simply installing this package will mangle the network interfaces.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

(And this package gets installed as a dependency of a library, which has other libraries as reverse-dependencies - quite a mess.)

[Leo Iannacone (l3on)]

According to the debian changelog, Precise is not affected by this problem:

dnprogs | 2.57 | precise/universe | source

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

oneiric has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the oneiric task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".