Chatting with Martin it seems that an upload to xenial-updates has broken the logic since the test in network-manager's postinst script is now out out date.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1716034 Title: Network manager stops managing Ethernet links after upgrade Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: After upgrading Ubuntu, it stopped configuring the word connection on my headless computer (super annoying to deal with). In any case, it was an issue with NM config change that caused my wired device to become unmanaged. There are several people discussing this here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/882806/ethernet-device-not-managed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1716034/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp