instalation breaks network interface settings
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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rpcbind (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
When I installed rpcbind on Ubuntu 12.04 (32-bit) version (by means of old 'potrtmap' package) I found that it broke the settings in /etc/network/
Original file had this as the last 3 lines:
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
After installing rpcbind it had done this:
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
#NetworkManager
As a result, when I rebooted there was no remote log-in, etc.
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
$ apt-cache policy rpcbind
rpcbind:
Installed: 0.2.0-7ubuntu1.1
Candidate: 0.2.0-7ubuntu1.1
Version table:
*** 0.2.0-7ubuntu1.1 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
0.2.0-7ubuntu1 0
500 http://
I expected to be able to install this package and still have a working network interface!
Actually this is not quite true. It turns out on the next machine that this change was done earlier (Friday 13th, with interfaces.bak-0 file having the uncommented line), but it results in the system breaking once rpcbind, nis, etc has been added.
So before rpcbind & nis is installed, I can reboot and it works fine with the #NetworkManager# comment in place, but once installed it no longer brings the interface up unless I edit the file to remove #NetworkManager#