ifupdown hides the connections of the keyfile plugin if there are connections managed by ifupdown (not NM)

[Florian Hackenberger]

Binary package hint: network-manager

SRU JUSTIFICATION:

Simple patch to avoid blocking loading all the connections if eth0 is found by the ifupdown plugin (e.g. configured in /etc/network/interfaces), with ifupdown set to unmanaged. Some further connections may need to be loading from the keyfile plugin.

TEST CASES:

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The ifupdown plugin causes the keyfile plugin to break if there is a connection
managed by ifupdown (/etc/network/interfaces) and the keyfile plugin is loaded
after ifupdown as specified in /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf by
default.

A workaround is to change the order of the plugins and make sure ifupdown is
the last. So change:

plugins=ifupdown,keyfile

to

plugins=keyfile,ifupdown

in /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf

See upstream bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=632675

[Florian Hackenberger (f-hackenberger)]

It would be great if the workaround could be incorporated into an SRU.

[Florian Hackenberger (f-hackenberger)]

The fix can be found here:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=a4cc8873c9981176575c0939c63473b4206db72c

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Florian,

What release was this for (I guess Lucid, but just checking)?

For a possible SRU, I'd instead apply the upstream fix, since it's not very intrusive.

[Florian Hackenberger (f-hackenberger)]

Lucid, yes.

Thanks for processing this bugreport!

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Assigning to myself so I can prepare a package to test this fix with.

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Florian,

I can happily prepare a package that fixes the issue; but could you please clarify the exact TEST CASES in the description above, so that it's clear for people trying to verify the fix? Thanks!

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Test cases need to be clarified as to how exactly to reproduce the bug and verify that it's fixed by a SRU. Marking Incomplete for now (and unassigning myself).

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

This was fixed in upstream long ago so it's likely fixed in Ubuntu too.