On Sunday 26 August 2007, Benji Weber wrote:
On 26/08/07, Thomas Hertweck
wrote: No, I expect it to be the same when performing an update (as we did) - if an update causes problems like that, something has gone wrong and the distributor did a bad job. An update is not allowed to change any critical system settings. The situation is different when you perform an upgrade, i.e. you install a complete new version of a distribution...
It's not a critical system setting, it may change just on a reboot, if you change nothing...
Not Critical? Who says its not? The bitching about this name change has been loud and long all over the net for every distro that did not add a feature to nail it down. There are a LOT of utilities that depend on static interface names, and not all of them have been fixed to account for this as the OP has quickly found out. This is another of those caviler changes that Linux is so famous for. No warning, no rationale, so solutions until the bitch level gets high. usbfs-->sysfs Screw-you Vmware smfbs-->cifs Screw-you Win98 shares hda-->sda Screw-you 16partitions YOU-->Zmd Screw you entire userbase -- _____________________________________ John Andersen