On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 09:59 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On May 16, 2013, at 10:49 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 15:44 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > >>> On May 16, 2013, at 3:36 PM, Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
