On Mon 27 May 2019 at 17:22:30 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 27 May 2019 03:25:21 pm Brian wrote: > > > On Mon 27 May 2019 at 13:42:46 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Monday 27 May 2019 03:46:00 am Curt wrote: > > > > On 2019-05-27, <to...@tuxteam.de> <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > > > > If Network Manager is giving you grief, please go bark up /that/ > > > > > tree (I can't say much about N-M, because I banned it from my > > > > > boxes about ten years ago: I was at a customer's, in his LAN via > > > > > an Ethernet, when N-M suddenly saw a WLAN out there, out the > > > > > window and said "oh, let's go online over there" and obliterated > > > > > my network setting in favor of some seedy captive portal. That > > > > > was when I decided that N-M and me, we aren't made for each > > > > > other). > > > > > > > > This is a grave bug. I suppose we can assume from your description > > > > that the seedier the wifi portal, the more likely it is to > > > > spontaneously occur, despite any and all user configuration or > > > > intervention. > > > > > > This would appear to be more common, but as far as filing a bug > > > report, I logged in to do something in 2015, creating a new account > > > at the time, so now it refuses to let me in because the username > > > content rules have been changed and my username is now invalid. And > > > because it knows my email address, it won't let me create a new > > > account. So its the classic chicken v egg. I am locked out, so I > > > rant on this list. > > > > Let's get this totally straight. Whatever you logged into was not the > > BTS. No account needs to be set up to report a bug. You can rant as > > much as you want, but whatever you did is now unknown and it is > > extremely doubtful you can supply details. > > Then what was I looking at 3 hours ago, looked like a login form to me, > wanted my username, my real name and my email address. That popped up > and denied me access when I clicked on add bug in the upper right corner > of the screen? It flat refused to let me proceed without a valid login. > Yet you're telling me it should sail right on by just by clicking on the > add button?
You know the pack drill. Give a link to what you were looking at. -- Brian.
