Debian Bug report logs - #696755
installation-reports: no network connection after reboot if only tasksel's standard and ssh-server

Package: installation-reports; Maintainer for installation-reports is Debian Install Team <[email protected]>;

Reported by: Luca Capello <[email protected]>

Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 20:18:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: confirmed

Fix blocked by 694068: netcfg: Wireless connectivity present during an install but absent afterwards, 727740: installation-reports: wireless and wired network works in the installer but not transfered to the installed system, 777439: Jessie DI-rc1 amd64 after installation no network interfaces

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Subject: Re: Bug#696755: installation-reports: no network connection after reboot if only tasksel's standard and ssh-server
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block 696755 by 694068
thanks

Hi there!

On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 23:30:10 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
> On Wed 26 Dec 2012 at 21:14:45 +0100, Luca Capello wrote:
>
>> 3) I did wanted a standard system with OpenSSH, thus I chose no other
>>    tasks that these two.  However, I was quite surprised to discover
>>    that in the end there was no network interface available in
>>    /etc/network/interfaces (only lo), which means that even plugging an
>>    ethernet cable in a DHCP-served network did not result in a
>>    network-enabled system.  It was even more surprising considering that
>>    /etc/resolv.conf contained the DHCP-provided value used during the
>>    installation.
>> 
>>    While I agree that my installation is not a typical one, given that
>>    there was a working Wi-Fi connection during installation (everything
>>    worked flawlessly, thank you!), not having it in the end is
>>    suboptimal.  Which translates into the fact that if there is no
>>    network-manager installed I would say that all network cards should
>>    be enabled in /etc/network/interfaces.
>> 
>>    IIRC this was recently discussed on debian-boot@, but I was unable to
>>    quickly find it in the archive and I do not remember the final
>>    outcome about it.
>
> Bug #694068.

Thank you, Brian, I incorrectly remembered that it was discussed in
December, while it was even older (November).

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

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