previous to 11.04, if /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules was deleted, it would be automatically regenerated at boot. this appears to now not be happening.
if run manually, write_net_rules complains "missing valid match" - although i don't know if this is necesarily meaningful.
i did find this debian bug, which appears to maybe be similar/related [although it's a bit old at 2008]:
previous to 11.04, if /etc/udev/ rules.d/ 70-persistent- net.rules was deleted, it would be automatically regenerated at boot. this appears to now not be happening.
if run manually, write_net_rules complains "missing valid match" - although i don't know if this is necesarily meaningful.
i did find this debian bug, which appears to maybe be similar/related [although it's a bit old at 2008]:
http:// bugs.debian. org/cgi- bin/bugreport. cgi?bug= 492193
1] 11.04
2] udev: us.archive. ubuntu. com/ubuntu/ natty/main amd64 Packages dpkg/status
Installed: 167-0ubuntu3
Candidate: 167-0ubuntu3
Version table:
*** 167-0ubuntu3 0
500 /http://
100 /var/lib/
3] i expected /etc/udev/ rules.d/ 70-persistent- net.rules to be automatically created by the system
4] it was not