Bug#511302: knetworkconf unable to carry out basic interface operations

[Massimo Manghi <massimo.manghi@unipr.it>]

Package: knetworkconf
Version: 4:3.5.9-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable



knetworkconf is now unable to change the state of network interfaces
thus becoming useless for most practical uses. Upon
request for enabling/disabling an interface knetworkconf invariabily 
displays the message "There was an error changing the device's state. You will have to do it manually."

I'm reporting this bug against knetworkconf because I'm still able
to perform these operations using the shell commands. I'm observing
the same problem on an amd64 debian installation.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages knetworkconf depends on:
ii  kdelibs4c2a      4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny1 core libraries and binaries for al
ii  libc6            2.7-16                  GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1          1:4.3.2-1.1             GCC support library
ii  libqt3-mt        3:3.3.8b-5              Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libstdc++6       4.3.2-1.1               The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

knetworkconf recommends no packages.

knetworkconf suggests no packages.

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