On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 09:59 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote:
> >
> > On May 16, 2013, at 10:49 PM, Dan Williams <d...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 15:44 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> >>> On May 16, 2013, at 3:36 PM, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Rebooted. I still have the problem. Wired connection is Off on each 
> >>>> reboot. This happens even if I regress to the 3.9.0 kernel that's used 
> >>>> on the Live media, which works on every boot. Flummoxed.
> >>>
> >>> I found part of the problem:
> >>> [root@F19 network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-ens5
> >>> ….
> >>> ONBOOT=no
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> But why is it set to no? Once set to yes, system reboots with p5p1 
> >>> enabled.
> >>
> >> Either it was set to "no" during installation, or something set it to
> >> "no" after the install.  NetworkManager won't ever change that value by
> >> itself.  Something else (like the GUI, or directly editing that file
> >> with VIM/emacs/etc) had to change it.
> >
> > It was set to no during installation, user unaware of this.
> >
> > The Gnome shell > Settings > Network > Wired > gear button > Identity > 
> > Connect automatically checkbox is what affects the ONBOOT= value. A 
> > similarly named checkbox is checked in anaconda on Fedora 18, but is 
> > unchecked if the cable is unplugged in anaconda on Fedora 19. So the 
> > resulting installation gets an ONBOOT=no and stays that way until the user 
> > finds, five layers deep, this weird Connect automatically checkbox.
> >
> > But this bug has brought me to a plethora of buggy behavior in the Gnome 
> > Settings Network panel, so maybe the misery was worth it.
> 
> *THIS*. *This* kind of thing is why NetworkManager remains unusable
> for production network configuratoin.

Hyperbole -> /dev/null.
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