Re: That time IPv6 farted in Gene's church (Was Re: forcedeth?)
On Monday 27 May 2019 06:45:42 pm Brian wrote:
> 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.
The link came from a post to this list, 2 or so days back. And my
plastic eyes are fogging up from lack of sleep, so I am not going to try
to find it yet tonight.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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