[Bug 2080841] Re: Upgrading from Jammy to Noble removes ppp and freeradius packages

[DEXTER]

I would not say that ppp and pppoe are random packages.

Both are needed to access the internet for me. There are ISPs out there
who are using pppoe to give access to the internet. So if those are
removed then ->no internet->no access to download ppp/pppoe->no
internet->catch 22.

Freeradius is also used to authenticate every client on the lan to
access wifi.

Freeradius was installed as is: apt-get install freeradius.

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Title:
  Upgrading from Jammy to Noble removes ppp and freeradius packages

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  So.. I upgraded from Jammy to Noble just now, and during the upgrade I noticed the internet was gone.
  Saw loglines like this:
  Sep 16 12:01:14 gw systemd[1]: pppoe.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC
  Sep 16 12:01:14 gw systemd[1]: pppoe.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
  Sep 16 12:01:14 gw systemd[1]: Failed to start pppoe.service - PPPoE connection.

  But I thought it is just how the upgrade process is, so went on with
  it. After the upgrade was done, rebooted, and I noticed still no
  internet. dpkg -l | grep ppp showed that the ppp package was
  completely missing.

  _Fortunately_ I was prepared and had an usb stick handy with ALL the
  packages AND dependent libs to ppp and pppoe, so I could manually
  install them back on with dpkg -i.

  The upgrade process also removed the freeradius package which is also
  used for all the devices to access the internet through wireless.

  part of /var/log/dist-upgrade/screenlog.0:
  Remove: freeradius libev4 libevent-2.1-7 libgetdns10 ppp

  This is a major issue imho, since If I hadn't got that usb stick with
  all the necessary packages I would be writing this now...

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