>Can you replicate the network manager failure when upgrading in a more
normal manner?

Using do-release-upgrade *IS* a normal manner, and it is working as
intended. Before Gutsy was released, it was even the _recommended_
method of upgrading in several situations. The same behavior happened to
me six months ago when upgrading from Feisty to Gutsy using adept, so
I'm marking this as confirmed.

This is really a bug in NetworkManager, which hijacks the network
configuration without telling the user. The behavior was documented back
when Gutsy was released
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GutsyGibbon/ReleaseNotes), but no one bothered
to fix the problem in the intervening six months.

The best work-around that has worked for me is to uninstall dhcdbd and
network-manager before upgrading. If, after you do the upgrade, you want
Network Manager to manage your network configuration, you can always add
it back.  I've never missed Network Manager, and none of my customers
have either, so you may decide just to leave it out. If you want a GUI
interface for managing your network, network-config does a better job
IMHO.


** Changed in: update-manager-core (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Confirmed

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do-release-upgrade to gutsy disables eth0
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/151169
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