On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 08:51:28AM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: > Hi ifupdown-Maintainer,
> I've installed a recent Debian/Testing on two different boxes and on a > virtual qemu-box and the following problem appeard on all of them: After > booting the system the nentwork inteface is not brought up correctly > which makes this installation (in fact the whole system) unusable for > reomote-only installations. > The problem seems to be the following line in /etc/network/interfaces: > allow-hotplug eth0 > Issuing an > sudo ifup -a > does not do anything. > After changing the line to > auto eth0 > the problem seems to be fixed. Please note that I'm not talking about > some heavyly customized installations but rather about default > installations of an up-to-date Debian/Testing. > I've mentioned the problem on d-devel and d-user-german and it looks > that the problem (as well as the proposed solution) is quite common. But isn't this a regression in the installer for using an allow-hotplug stanza, not in ifupdown? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
