Bug#635604: dnet-common: package causes ethernet address to be set to aa:00:04:00:0a:04

2011-08-09 Thread Anthony L. Awtrey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, This issue killed my sid box last night when I upgraded. When selecting leave it alone please make sure the configuration is left alone. Don't change anything as critical as the MAC address without clear, explicit and double-confirmed user

Bug#635604: dnet-common: package causes ethernet address to be set to aa:00:04:00:0a:04

2011-08-07 Thread Simon Mackinlay
Leaving aside the dependancy bug (which is not dnet-common's issue at all) - there's three distinct problems here, both of which definitely are :- 1/ The MAC address assigned in the default case is not unique (imagine the effect of a stock-with-defaults install of this package on a 1000-way

Bug#635604: dnet-common: package causes ethernet address to be set to aa:00:04:00:0a:04

2011-07-27 Thread Arthur Marsh
Package: dnet-common Version: 2.56 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software when libroarcompat1 is installed, dnet-common is a recommended package brought in with libdnet when apt/aptitude is configured to bring in recommended packages. This caused the ethernet hardware