[Feisty] network-admin forgets static in interfaces

I can confirm this bug.
It seems it's a duplicate of bug 12074 and of bug 11976 but those bug are quite old : they were reported during January 2005... (and fixed)

I alos noticed network-admin added an "s:" in front of my WEP key wich made it ascii and not hexadecimal but maybe those two bugs are totally unlinked..

Probably similar to bug #82088 due to the network-manager roaming mode

On 2/3/07, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:
> Probably similar to bug #82088 due to the network-manager roaming mode

That does look like the same effect, but (at least for me) it has nothing to do with network-manager. Because of the fact that I have a static IP, I don't run network-manager at all. (Apps that use it for network detection tend to get confused.)

I believe network-manager use network-admin for static IP no ? When I try to configure static IP with network-manager, I have the same problem : I must add the static to the interfaces file to have a connection. And after that, network-manager stay on a disconnected state (and many applications like epiphnay, evolution ... are on a disconnected state too ...).

On 2/4/07, Julien <email address hidden> wrote:
> I believe network-manager use network-admin for static IP no ?

Yes, but since it's a separate tool, I'm pretty sure this bug does not necessarily depend on any use of network-manager at all.

I am confirming this bug as well - adding static to the end of the interface description in /etc/network/interfaces allows connectivity.

Same problem here. I have to edit /etc/network/interfaces at every startup to let the connections working.

Tom, if you have to edit at every startup that's probably not a network-admin bug, since it changes the configuration only when being used. Do you have network-manager running? That might be due to it

Yes Sebastian, you're right: if I disable the network-manager applet in startup programs the /etc/network/interfaces remains unchanged.

I can't understand if this is a network-manager problem or not.

The bug report still points to gnome-system-tools.

I am almost sure, this is *not* a network-manager problem.
I don't use network-manager and the bug still occours.

Problem persists for me in Feisty Herd-4

After changing to static ip address using network-admin:

$ grep eth0 /etc/network/interfaces
iface eth0 inet

Expected:
iface eth0 inet static

Same problem here too.

After clear installation only DHCP work.

I set-up static IP by network-manager and close, reopen network-manager and "roaming mode" are enable.

I setup by "ifconfig" and my board only ping my router, no web, no ftp, no mail...etc...

I edit /etc/network/interfaces adding "static" and rebooted... now static IP work for me...

boh...

GNU/Linux Ubuntu Feisty Herd4

For the record:
<garnacho> pitti: I've fixed that in CVS :)

That upload fixes the problem:

 system-tools-backends (2.1.3-0ubuntu2) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/patches/90_from_cvs_fix_static_interface.patch:
     - patch from CVS, fix "static" not being written to the interfaces file
       (Ubuntu: #80622)

not a gnome-system-tools problem

nor an Ubuntu one, and it's fixed

Yes, sorry. It was my fault. I messed up with the report. I was doing 5 different things at the same time and the result was this.

Sorry again :(

no problem, that was quick to fix

Now with Feisty Herd-5, network-admin does replace the word "dhcp" with "static", so I suppose this bug is correct as having status "Fix Released".

However, I still cannot use network-admin to change my wired connection from dhcp to static. When I do that I get in my syslog:
  dhclient: There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid with pid 134993440

Bug #88101 addresses that problem.