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, <to...@tuxteam.de> <to...@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? > > - Jonas
Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>