On 2016-02-27 19:48:48 +1100, Andrew Vaughan wrote: > My home server is a headless box, administered from a vnc session tunnelled > over ssh. It has no wifi adaptor, just a single ethernet port that is > statically configured via /etc/network/interfaces. > > During today's package update my ssh connection died partway through, during > setup of wicd-daemon. Last line was "Installing new version of config file > /etc/wicd/encryption/templates/wpa2-peap ..." > > Then ssh refused to re-connect. > > I finally got re-connected after discovering that wicd-daemon had > reconfigured eth0 to a different ip address.
Probably the same bug as bug 557156 (from 2009!). The problem is that wicd-daemon tries to reconfigure the ethernet interface even though it is configured not to connect to it automatically (which should be and is the default). A workaround is to remove eth0 from the wicd configuration. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
