Package: ifupdown
Version: 0.7.8
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

I have now installed Debian Wheezy on three systems and have experienced this 
identical problem on all three.  One was a hosted VM, the other two different 
boxes of my own.

After the Debian installer is finished and the machine reboots the network 
comes up.  But then when I alter /etc/network/interfaces to something like:


auto lo                                                                         
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
        address 192.168.0.12
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway 192.168.0.1


after rebooting NO interfaces come up, including lo.  If I manually run:

ifup lo

it says "link: error fetching interface information: Device not found"

for "ifup eth0" it says:

addr: error feching interface information: Device not found


during boot I can also see the message run by:

link: error fetching interface information: device not found


Also, running "/etc/init.d/networking restart" also fails similarly.


If I run "ifconfig lo up" it brings up lo.

If I run "ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.12 netmask 255.255.255.0 && route add default 
gw 192.168.0.1" eth0 also correctly comes up.


Is it related to any other packages which I install after the first boot?  The 
packages I usually install are:

wireless-tools vim rsync cpufrequtils wpasupplicant pcmciautils 
screen dselect acpid powermgmt-base acpi powertop acpitool deborphan sudo 
anacron pm-utils cron-apt laptop-mode-tools ethtool dphys-swapfile 
intel-microcode iucode-tool kacpimon apt-file build-essential fail2ban

on a minimal system which at the tasksel stage of the install I only select 
"standard system" and nothing else.


I have checked the permissions for /etc, /etc/network, and 
/etc/network/interfaces and all look ok.  /etc/hosts is ok.  /etc/hostname is 
ok.  /etc/resolv.conf is ok.




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ifupdown depends on:
ii  dpkg         1.16.10
ii  initscripts  2.88dsf-41
ii  iproute      20120521-3+b3
ii  libc6        2.13-38
ii  lsb-base     4.1+Debian8+deb7u1

ifupdown recommends no packages.

Versions of packages ifupdown suggests:
ii  isc-dhcp-client [dhcp-client]  4.2.2.dfsg.1-5+deb70u6
ii  net-tools                      1.60-24.2
pn  ppp                            <none>
pn  rdnssd                         <none>

-- no debconf information


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