Re: That time IPv6 farted in Gene's church (Was Re: forcedeth?)
Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> writes:
> 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?
Debian package names are all lower case, and for better or worse the
package management software is case-sensitive.
snowball:532$ reportbug
Please enter the name of the package in which you have found a problem, or type 'other' to report a more general problem. If you don't know what package the bug is in, please contact debian-user@lists.debian.org for
assistance.
> network-manager
*** Welcome to reportbug. Use ? for help at prompts. ***
Note: bug reports are publicly archived (including the email address of the submitter).
Detected character set: UTF-8
Please change your locale if this is incorrect.
Using 'Joe Pfeiffer <joseph@pfeifferfamily.net>' as your from address.
Getting status for network-manager...
Checking for newer versions at madison...
Your version (1.14.6-2) of network-manager appears to be out of date.
The following newer release(s) are available in the Debian archive:
experimental: 1.18.0-1
Please try to verify if the bug you are about to report is already addressed by these releases. Do you still want to file a report [y|N|q|?]?
(at which point I entered a ^C since I didn't actually want to report a
bug)
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