Re: That time IPv6 farted in Gene's church (Was Re: forcedeth?)
On Mon 27 May 2019 at 17:22:30 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 27 May 2019 03:25:21 pm Brian wrote:
>
> > On Mon 27 May 2019 at 13:42:46 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Let's get this totally straight. Whatever you logged into was not the
> > BTS. No account needs to be set up to report a bug. You can rant as
> > much as you want, but whatever you did is now unknown and it is
> > extremely doubtful you can supply details.
>
> Then what was I looking at 3 hours ago, looked like a login form to me,
> wanted my username, my real name and my email address. That popped up
> and denied me access when I clicked on add bug in the upper right corner
> of the screen? It flat refused to let me proceed without a valid login.
> Yet you're telling me it should sail right on by just by clicking on the
> add button?
You know the pack drill. Give a link to what you were looking at.
--
Brian.
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