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