udev rules from persistent usb-stick leak to installs
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The problem happens with a live-USB stick created with the Startup Disk Creator with persistence turned on. As expected, every network interface of every machine the stick is booted on gets an entry in /etc/udev/
The unexpected behavior here is, that the file ends up on installations made with the USB stick. On a vanilla install you end up with your interfaces named wlan8 and eth12. I experienced cases were no network connections were possible until the huge list of rules was deleted.
I attached an anonymized example of 70-persistent-
This bug-report was created out of a vanilla install of Ubuntu in a virtualbox vm.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity (not installed)
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-32-
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 12 16:18:18 2012
InstallCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120817.3)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.