Comment 30 for bug 839595

Three is a crowd! I have 4 machines running kubuntu. Two started out with regular CD/USB live image installed to disk. The other two were installed from the netinstall mini-iso, connected to ethernet. These two are the only ones where I see an auto ethN.

I also played in one of my machines extensively with the network management plasma widget and the ethernet config (as I suggested in post #26). I could never, ever get it to save anything to the /etc/network/interfaces files.

It seems pretty conclusive that some of the ubuntu official installers are adding these auto ethN entries, which don't seem to make sense. Should we open a bug report for that? What's the proper place?

In addition, I agree with Clint that the more e can do to help users hitting this the better. It will be a minority, but definitely a lot of people. Is it possible to have the update manager to actually correct this, save a back up of the offending interfaces files, and people the info on how to restore it if needed? Sames as happens when you upgrade KDM or GDM and it gives you the option to keep the custom config file or use a new one (with additional info pointing at the issue at hand)

Cheers!
Leo