Bug#816076: wicd-daemon: upgrade reconfigures static ethernet interface, and kills ssh sessions.

On 7 March 2016 at 04:16, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > 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

Bug#816076: wicd-daemon: upgrade reconfigures static ethernet interface, and kills ssh sessions.

Hi Vincent. I was just about to update this bug after purging wicd today. On 20 April 2016 at 19:58, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > 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 co

Bug#816076: wicd-daemon: upgrade reconfigures static ethernet interface, and kills ssh sessions.

Package: wicd-daemon Version: 1.7.4+tb2-1 Severity: serious Dear Maintainer, 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 packag