On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 08:22:00PM +0100, Axel N�tzold wrote: > On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 02:06:44PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 07:39:06PM +0100, Axel N??tzold wrote: > > > The line "pre-up /usr/sbin/ifconfig eth0 up" in /etc/network/interfaces > > > is not inserted by pppoeconf. Therefore, the network will be down at boot. > > > In my second system (Sarge) pppoeconf make that properly.
> > > Furthermore, if pppoeconf will be used a second time, a > > > redundant "auto eth0" part will be inserted in > > > /etc/network/interfaces - rendering the file unusable for the > > > startscripts. This part seems to have a patch: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=334361 > > > Similar to the first problem, this occures only in sid and > > > not in sarge. > > pppoeconf 1.9 migrated to testing [2006-01-29]; are both systems up to > > date? What versions are being used? > > The Sarge system is fresh, the last Sid update is ca 2 weeks old. I > looked wether there is a newer version of pppoeconf than mine on the sid > system - i have the newest deb. So sid has pppoeconf 1.9 and sarge has 1.7? Could you also send the output of: dpkg -l gettext-base ppp pppoe sed whiptail whiptail-provider on the sarge system? Could you test on the sid system if installing the stable version fixes the problem? apt-get install pppoeconf/stable Justin

