[Bug 919068] Re: bridge_ports all doesn't work at boot time

[George F]

> No, that's not at all clear. This bug report was originally filed against 1.5-2ubuntu1, and the submitter reports there is no 
> difference in behavior between the two versions. You should probably file a separate bug report for your issue.

Well, i can't explain it but after i installed bridge-utils 1.5-2ubuntu1
and rebooted it worked fine for a while. The next day I turned the
computer back on and i could not get it to work again. SO, there is
still something else going on with it. I was so hoping it was fixed as
well without it I can't even more forward with installing and setting up
Xen.

So far this has been a major hurdle and really annoying to say the
least.

> Manually downloading packages from the web and installing them is strongly contraindicated. You are completely bypassing 
> the established security mechanisms of signed packages and opening yourself up to a man-in-the-middle attack. The 
> appropriate way to do this is by running:
>      sudo apt-get install bridge-utils/oneiric
>to pull the version of the package from oneiric instead of from oneiric-updates.

YA, i know it is not advised to install anything manual, BUT this is a
testing server setup SO i really don't care about any security or
anything. I just want bridge-utils to work SO i don't have to continue
to waste hours trying to find a way to make it work.... :). If i happen
to find a solution THAN, YA of course i would go back to do things the
proper way, but for now, it is just simply frustrating that you can't
continue cause of some bug.

In Debian there is NO such issue at all, and it and UBUNTU are so very
similar that well never figured one gets stopped in your tracks so
easily with Ubuntu....

Just out of shear trying something, i also installed bridge-utils
1.5-2ubuntu6, BUT still can't get it to work.

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Title:
  bridge_ports all doesn't work at boot time

Status in “bridge-utils” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I posted the details of the problem on:
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1911817

  /etc/network/interfaces: 
  auto lo
  iface lo inet loopback

  auto br0
  iface br0 inet static
    address 192.168.1.5
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    gateway 192.168.1.1
    bridge_ports all

  iface eth0 inet manual
    up ifconfig $IFACE 0.0.0.0 up
    up ip link set $IFACE promisc on
    down ip link set $IFACE promisc off
    down ifconfig $IFACE down


  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 11.10
  Release:	11.10

  $ apt-cache policy bridge-utils
  bridge-utils:
    Installed: 1.5-2ubuntu1
    Candidate: 1.5-2ubuntu1
    Version table:
   *** 1.5-2ubuntu1 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  I was expecting to have network after boot.

  I don't have network instead.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: bridge-utils 1.5-2ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Jan 19 22:45:21 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
  SourcePackage: bridge-utils
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-16 (96 days ago)

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