Package: network-manager Version: 0.8.1-6 Severity: important Tags: upstream
When connected to a router with inbuilt switch, power-cycling the router bring the Ethernet interface down and up again, thus triggering a reconfiguration. When using DHCP, this include sending a query for an address to the router. However, it may take some time for the router to be ready again, and the DHCP requests essentially end nowhere. Network-manager is therefore unable to configure the interface. However, it never retries to configure and use that interface (regardless of the fact that IPv6 addresses may have been obtained through SLAA) without human intervention, leaving the machine potentially indefinitely offline. Network-manager should try periodically to re-configure DHCP interfaces, potentially with an exponential back-off. Additionally, it would be good if, in the meantime, it configured link-local IPv4 addresses. Not sure if it is an upstream issue, but I suspect as much as Ubuntu appears to have the same problem. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages network-manager depends on: ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups ii dbus 1.2.24-4 simple interprocess messaging syst ii isc-dhcp-client 4.1.1-P1-15 ISC DHCP client ii libc6 2.11.2-9 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-4 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.88-2.1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgcrypt11 1.4.5-2 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnutls26 2.8.6-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libgudev-1.0-0 164-3 GObject-based wrapper library for ii libnl1 1.1-6 library for dealing with netlink s ii libnm-glib2 0.8.1-6 network management framework (GLib ii libnm-util1 0.8.1-6 network management framework (shar ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.96-4 PolicyKit Authorization API ii libuuid1 2.17.2-5 Universally Unique ID library ii lsb-base 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii udev 164-3 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo ii wpasupplicant 0.6.10-2.1 client support for WPA and WPA2 (I Versions of packages network-manager recommends: ii dnsmas 2.55-2+b1 A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP ii iptabl 1.4.8-3 administration tools for packet fi ii modemm 0.4+git.20100624t180933.6e79d15-2 D-Bus service for managing modems ii policy 0.96-4 framework for managing administrat ii ppp 2.4.5-4 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da Versions of packages network-manager suggests: pn avahi-autoipd <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
