Comment 38 for bug 366967

I had an up-to-date Ubuntu 11.10 workstation. I recently received an update that required a 'restart' (aka reboot - new kernel). I put off the reboot while working away - for a week or so. So, as has happened each time I've had to 'restart' (aka reboot for a new kernel), I once again watched in disgust as my /etc/resolv.conf file got blown away.

Really? Again?

Is anyone EVER going to allow an Ubuntu system administrator to configure their networking set up via some /etc file contents. Is some GUI now mandatory? No, I don't use NetworkManager. It isn't installed. It created INCREDIBLE grief.

As others have noted, I now find that ifdown/ifup works - albeit only once I conform to the Ubuntu way and put a dns-nameservers directive into the eth0 stanza in /etc/network/interfaces.

But guess what, no more clean reboots. Each reboot requires an ifdown/ifup ritual. Really?

The rationale for not only ignoring, but obliterating, a user defined system configuration must be fascinating. I just cannot imagine.

And to think ... some wonder why the year of the Linux desktop never arrived!

Disgusted and dismayed