Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-05 Thread David Wright
On Fri 01 Sep 2023 at 21:31:39 (+0100), Brad Rogers wrote: > On Fri, 1 Sep 2023 14:02:31 -0600 D. R. Evans wrote: > > >So how do I fix this so that the networking is configured to work > >correctly during the boot sequence, as it has always done before? > > I had changing ethernet port issues and

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-04 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 1 Sep 2023 18:33:51 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: ... > Standard installation. But as you noted, it's optional. Debian *also* > allows the use of Network Manager, systemd-networkd, and probably several > other systems for configuring one's network(s). Yes - I use iwd for basic (wireless)

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-03 Thread Darac Marjal
On 02/09/2023 13:09, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sat, 2 Sep 2023 12:08:37 +0100 Brian wrote: Hello Brian, I did not write any of the text you quote. You did, but it was not what Timothy was responding to. What you wrote was quoted right at the bottom of the message, and irrelevant to Timothy's

Re: WORKAROUND (longish): was bookworm and network connections

2023-09-03 Thread Curt
On 2023-09-02, Brian wrote: > On Sat 02 Sep 2023 at 19:37:22 +0100, Brian wrote: > >> On Sat 02 Sep 2023 at 08:19:56 -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> > I will file a bug report. >> >> You have filed the report against general. This is a non-optimal >> package. Someone may or may not

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-02 Thread David Wright
On Fri 01 Sep 2023 at 21:57:39 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 08:40:43PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > I know you have a low opinion of allow-hotplug, but I can't see that > > auto/allow-auto is necessarily better for the naive user that doesn't > > install a DE for whatev

Re: WORKAROUND (longish): was bookworm and network connections

2023-09-02 Thread David Wright
On Sat 02 Sep 2023 at 08:19:56 (-0600), D. R. Evans wrote: > Starting a new thread so that this doesn't get lost in the postings in > the original thread. > > The original thread was started at: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/09/msg00024.html > > That post contains a description of

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-02 Thread D. R. Evans
Brian wrote on 9/2/23 04:51: Installation over ethernet, no DE - ifupdown provided. Installation over ethernet or wireless with a DE - network-manager provided. Yep, that one's exactly what I experienced. Although the machine is used more like a server than a desktop, it has DE (KDE) to make

Re: WORKAROUND (longish): was bookworm and network connections

2023-09-02 Thread D. R. Evans
Brian wrote on 9/2/23 13:01: Send a mail to cont...@bugs.debian.org Ib the mail body put ressign 1051086 installation-report thanks Sorry. That's "reassign". Done. Thank you. I pondered where to assign in, and couldn't see anywhere that the report really fit. (I interpreted "i

Re: WORKAROUND (longish): was bookworm and network connections

2023-09-02 Thread Brian
On Sat 02 Sep 2023 at 19:37:22 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sat 02 Sep 2023 at 08:19:56 -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > > [...] > > > I will file a bug report. > > You have filed the report against general. This is a non-optimal > package. Someone may or may not move it to a better place. > > Doing it

Re: WORKAROUND (longish): was bookworm and network connections

2023-09-02 Thread Brian
On Sat 02 Sep 2023 at 08:19:56 -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: [...] > I will file a bug report. You have filed the report against general. This is a non-optimal package. Someone may or may not move it to a better place. Doing it for yourself: Send a mail to cont...@bugs.debian.org Ib the mail b

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-02 Thread D. R. Evans
Michael Kjörling wrote on 9/2/23 03:23: You might want to poke around a little among the files in /etc/NetworkManager, particularly /e/NM/system-connections. That's what NetworkManager _should_ be using to set up the interfaces. See if there's something there to explain the two seemingly being

WORKAROUND (longish): was bookworm and network connections

2023-09-02 Thread D. R. Evans
Starting a new thread so that this doesn't get lost in the postings in the original thread. The original thread was started at: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/09/msg00024.html That post contains a description of the problem. I now have a workaround (although not an explanation) fo

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-02 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 2 Sep 2023 08:44:38 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: Hello Greg, >Because we've already deleted the message from person I can understand that for the occasional slip up (1), but when the perpetrator does it habitually (1) Over-zealous with the delete key, for example. -- Regards

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Sep 02, 2023 at 01:09:45PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > Which begs the question: > Why do some people respond to a message from person Y, when they're > /actually/ dealing with something written by person X? Because we've already deleted the message from person X, and didn't notice the issu

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-02 Thread Anssi Saari
"D. R. Evans" writes: > I don't think that debian has used used /etc/network/interfaces for a > while, at least not by default. Certainly there's nothing useful there > on the machine that I just upgraded and whose networking is failing to > configure itself correctly. I used to think that too.

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-02 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 2 Sep 2023 12:08:37 +0100 Brian wrote: Hello Brian, >I did not write any of the text you quote. You did, but it was not what Timothy was responding to. What you wrote was quoted right at the bottom of the message, and irrelevant to Timothy's response. Which begs the question: Why do

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-02 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Sat, Sep 2, 2023 at 6:34 AM Brian wrote: > On Fri 01 Sep 2023 at 16:56:42 -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > > > Michel Verdier wrote on 9/1/23 15:06: > > > > > > > > If you want old names put in /etc/default/grub > > > > > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="net.ifnames=0" > > > > > > > Nice to know, but I'll sta

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-02 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 Sep 2023 at 22:32:00 +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 04:16:46PM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > > I don't think that debian has used used /etc/network/interfaces for a while, > > at least not by default. > > All of my Debian servers (and desktops) have an > /e

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-02 Thread Brian
On Fri 01 Sep 2023 at 16:56:42 -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > Michel Verdier wrote on 9/1/23 15:06: > > > > > If you want old names put in /etc/default/grub > > > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="net.ifnames=0" > > > > Nice to know, but I'll stay with the new names, I think. > > > network manager is good

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-02 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 1 Sep 2023 21:41 -0600, from doc.ev...@gmail.com (D. R. Evans): > It would be nice to really fix the Network Manager misconfiguration; but it > seems that the expertise here is all with old-style. Which is fine. I'm > happy to go back to old-style. You might want to poke around a little among t

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread D. R. Evans
David Wright wrote on 9/1/23 19:40: I don't see that the OP is doing anything complicated that requires rc.local to run at all. They just need to distinguish between the two Correct. I was simply trying to workaround the problem by putting commands into rc.local that are known to work when I

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 08:40:43PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > I know you have a low opinion of allow-hotplug, but I can't see that > auto/allow-auto is necessarily better for the naive user that doesn't > install a DE for whatever reason. > > AIUI auto gives you a one-shot attempt to start the n

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread David Wright
On Fri 01 Sep 2023 at 17:38:48 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 03:18:47PM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > > [[ I speculate wildly that systemd or something doesn't complete configuring > > the network until after rc.local has finished processing (I know that > > rc.local execute

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread D. R. Evans
Michel Verdier wrote on 9/1/23 15:06: If you want old names put in /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="net.ifnames=0" Nice to know, but I'll stay with the new names, I think. network manager is good for changing networks. For a server the network must not change normally. So you could p

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread D. R. Evans
Andy Smith wrote on 9/1/23 16:32: Your situation appears to have been triggered by the renaming of your network interfaces (which was warned about in the release These weird names like "Wired connection enp11s0(eth0)" were names that the debian installer came up with several OS versions ago (

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 04:16:46PM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote on 9/1/23 15:38: > > > In particular, when using /etc/network/interfaces, only interfaces that > > are marked as "auto" need to be up, to satisfy this criterion. An > > I don't think that debian has used used /etc

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 04:16:46PM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > I don't think that debian has used used /etc/network/interfaces for a while, > at least not by default. All of my Debian servers (and desktops) have an /etc/network/interfaces file and ifupdown installed. It depends upon choice

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread D. R. Evans
Greg Wooledge wrote on 9/1/23 15:38: In particular, when using /etc/network/interfaces, only interfaces that are marked as "auto" need to be up, to satisfy this criterion. An I don't think that debian has used used /etc/network/interfaces for a while, at least not by default. Certainly there

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 03:18:47PM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > [[ I speculate wildly that systemd or something doesn't complete configuring > the network until after rc.local has finished processing (I know that > rc.local executes late in the boot process, but I don't think that that > means that

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread D. R. Evans
Thank you for your thoughts... As people are addressing the rc.local issue (I now realise that I shouldn't have mentioned it :-) )... I just checked, and: 1. rc.local is being executed; 2. it is executing the nmcli commands; 3. the commands are successful. But it remains true that when the bo

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-09-01, D. R. Evans wrote: > The machine has two ethernet ports, which used to be eth0 and eth1 in the old > days, but are now magically called "Wired connection enp11s0(eth0)" and "Wired > connection enp12s0(eth1)". If you want old names put in /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="net.i

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-09-01 at 16:50, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 08:32:40PM +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > >> I don't think /etc/rc.local is executed by default on modern Debian >> systems. Have you checked to make sure that rc-local.service is >> enabled and actually gets started during b

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 08:32:40PM +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > I don't think /etc/rc.local is executed by default on modern Debian > systems. Have you checked to make sure that rc-local.service is > enabled and actually gets started during boot? Is there anything > relevant in the logs for tha

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 1 Sep 2023 14:02 -0600, from doc.ev...@gmail.com (D. R. Evans): > Well, great, sort-of, except that every time I reboot I have to manually > issue the two above nmcli commands to take down and bring back up enp11s. > > I tried putting them in my rc.local file, but that had no effect (for > reas

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 1 Sep 2023 14:02:31 -0600 "D. R. Evans" wrote: Hello D., >So how do I fix this so that the networking is configured to work >correctly during the boot sequence, as it has always done before? I had changing ethernet port issues and found that creating /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link

bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread D. R. Evans
I just upgraded my main server to bookworm, having successfully, over the course of the past couple of months, methodically upgraded my other machines with only minor issues. Unfortunately, the upgrade of the server, the most important of my machines, has not been smooth at all, even though no