Hi Debian 10/gdb network-manager 1.14.6-2 amd64 network-manager-gnome 1.8.20-1.1 amd64
I create a bridge with nmcli. I delete the previous wired connection. The networking setup is fine and the bridge connection even appears in the GUI Settings/Network Wired section. As confirmed by the CLI: $ nmcli connection show NAME UUID TYPE DEVICE br0 f8cc5703-e3ba-4afb-b7e6-75fd995cee16 bridge br0 bridge-slave-enp0s25 cef1a1ae-2d51-46b5-aa9d-81227a8c9be3 ethernet enp0s25 But if I "deactivate" this connection from the GUI, it totally disappears (from the GUI), and the networking setup is put down. In fact, it has the same effect as doing 'nmcli connection down bridge-slave-enp0s25' : $ nmcli connection show NAME UUID TYPE DEVICE br0 f8cc5703-e3ba-4afb-b7e6-75fd995cee16 bridge br0 bridge-slave-enp0s25 cef1a1ae-2d51-46b5-aa9d-81227a8c9be3 ethernet -- I found two ways for reactivating the bridge connection: $ sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager.service or $ nmcli connection up bridge-slave-enp0s25 The networking setup goes up and the bridge connection even appears again in the GUI. Do you know a simple way or a workaround to fix that? Or should we consider this as a flaw in the network-manager-gnome package that need to be fixed? PS When one creates a wired connection from the GUI Setings/Network, if he comes bask and changes some parameters (IP address, ...) then clicks on Apply, it is in fact ONLY saved to a file in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/<connection-name> but it is NOT applied. To apply a change, one must click on the slider button to put it down then again to put it up (or use 'nmcli conn down <connection-name> && nmcli conn up <connection-name>' ). I had some pain with a new Debian Buster setup before I could figure out what happened there. If this is an expected behaviour? If yes, can you add a warning to explicitly inform the user that he MUST click twice on the down/up slider button for getting the connection down and up and his changes applied? I would clearly prefer to get a button 'Save' and a button 'Save & Apply' (or even a third button 'Just Apply' taht would be nice for quickly testing some parameters - but it would make the GUI a little bit unusual ; or an 'expert mode' could be added) Thanks Best regards _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
