problems with rdnssd and network-manager both installed in jessie
On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 05:45:05PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-10-11 at 16:50 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 01:36:05AM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> >
> > > ndisc6 (1.0.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium
> > > .
> > > * QA upload.
> > > * Set maintainer to the Debian QA Group (see #713004).
> > > * Add conflicts between rdnssd and network-manager (closes: #740998).
> >
> > This bug just hit me in Debian stable (as it happens, it appeared to
> > be a particularly severe form where /etc/resolv.conf was wiped out
> > altogether; perhaps some sort of race condition?)
> >
> > I'm not sure why rdnssd was installed at all. I can't see any mention
> > of it in debian-installer, and not a single package Depends or Recommends
> > it. Morever it was installed without resolvconf (which I suspect would
> > have mitigated this issue), despite it recommending resolvconf, and no
> > change to the default of installing recommends having taken place.
> >
> > Release team; would you consider a QA upload of this package targetted
> > at stable, fixing this bug in the same way that Michael fixed it in
> > unstable - this will hopefully stop others having the experience of
> > having networking break on a freshly installed Debian system every 20
> > minutes or so.
>
> This was previously discussed in #778492, where there was some concern
> from the installer side as to possible side effects of the change. CCing
> -boot to see what current thoughts are.
Oh, right. It seems that that bug got closed because noone had a suitable
test environment? I hereby volunteer to test a test d-i with this bug
fixed on the network where I experienced the problem in jessie.
Cheers,
Dominic.
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