Hi Austin,And thanks for your detailed report.Austin Moss <austin@themosses.org> (2023-06-28):> When installing Debian with the graphical installer from the DVD ISO, one of> the steps during the installer prompts users to connect to a network to> retrieve up to date packages. Later in the installer, the user is prompted to> choose additional packages such as the GNOME desktop environment. Once the> install is complete, the user will boot in to the newly installed system and> GNOME's network indicator will show no network connectivity even though they> configured such during the install and the network is likely up.> This appears to be due to the installer configuring ifupdown and> placing the selected interface in /etc/network/interfaces. GNOME's graphical> settings application provides a front end for NetworkManager and as such, will> not display the interface used during the installer. To display the interface> in GNOME Settings, a user needs to remove the interface from> /etc/network/interfaces.> Without knowing why the network is not displayed in the graphical> interface, users will be confused as to why they can browse the web or perform> other network tasks even though the GUI does not indicate a network connection.> This may also present a problem especially for wireless cards if a user needs> to connect to a new wireless network but cannot see their wireless card from> the GUI.> One of the fixes may be to clean /etc/networks/interfaces after the> installation if a user has selected to install GNOME, KDE, or any desktop> environment which provides a graphical front end for NetworkManager.netcfg is the component responsible for forwarding network settings fromthe installer's context to the installed system. A few bugs were fixedthat led to having no /e/n/i configuration for wireless interfaces inthe non-NetworkManager case, and I cannot exclude the possibility Imight have introduced a regression for the NetworkManager case.It feels a little strange that such a big issue wouldn't have beenspotted via the many tests that are run for the release, but maybe wearen't actively checking that particular point (yet)…Could you please share /var/log/installer/syslog (compressed) viareply-all?Cheers,--D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance ConsultantAttachments:
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