Re: That time IPv6 farted in Gene's church (Was Re: forcedeth?)
On Monday 27 May 2019 03:42:52 pm Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Gene Heskett (2019-05-27 19:42:46)
>
> > On Monday 27 May 2019 03:46:00 am Curt wrote:
> > > On 2019-05-27, <tomas@tuxteam.de> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> > > > If Network Manager is giving you grief, please go bark up /that/
> > > > tree (I can't say much about N-M, because I banned it from my
> > > > boxes about ten years ago: I was at a customer's, in his LAN via
> > > > an Ethernet, when N-M suddenly saw a WLAN out there, out the
> > > > window and said "oh, let's go online over there" and obliterated
> > > > my network setting in favor of some seedy captive portal. That
> > > > was when I decided that N-M and me, we aren't made for each
> > > > other).
> > >
> > > This is a grave bug. I suppose we can assume from your description
> > > that the seedier the wifi portal, the more likely it is to
> > > spontaneously occur, despite any and all user configuration or
> > > intervention.
> >
> > This would appear to be more common, but as far as filing a bug
> > report, I logged in to do something in 2015, creating a new account
> > at the time, so now it refuses to let me in because the username
> > content rules have been changed and my username is now invalid. And
> > because it knows my email address, it won't let me create a new
> > account. So its the classic chicken v egg. I am locked out, so I
> > rant on this list.
>
> Account? You need no account to report bugs in Debian:
> https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
>
So that indicates I should have apt install reportbug, so I did.
Configured it on 1st run. then became me and ran it again. It never
heard of NetworkManager or Network-Manager. WTH?
>
> - Jonas
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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