Network Manager fails to bring up network in Intrepid

[Russel Winder]

I have just upgraded my Ubuntu boxes from Hardy to Intrepid. One of them appears to have a problem with NetworkManager -- the problem is new this machien worked fine with Hardy.

Booting happens fine (except for a NIS problem but that is for another report).

NetworkManager appears to start but fails to make any form of connection. Doing a grep on /var/log/syslog reveals that every 2 mins some form of action is being undertaken but the report is:

NetworkManager: <info> Trying to start the supplicant...
NetworkManager: <info> Trying to start the system setting daemon...

nm-tool indicates that eth0 has started correctly, it is just disconnected.

DHCP is working as all the other machines boot fine (as far as I can tell, at least they are connected to the network as they should be).

[Russel Winder (russel)]

Sorry I should note that this is a workstation that is failing not a laptop, it only has a wired conenction r8169 driver, and that my filestore is mounted over NFS so I cannot actually login except via a virtual terminal.

[Russel Winder (russel)]

If I kill NetworkManager and run:

sudo ifconfig eth0
sudo dhclient eth0

then the network starts fine.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

Russel Winder wrote:
> If I kill NetworkManager and run:
>
> sudo ifconfig eth0
> sudo dhclient eth0
>
> then the network starts fine.
>
>
did you configure your device in /etc/network/interfaces? if so, remove
your config from there.

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[Russel Winder (russel)]

No, the /etc/network/interfaces file is the default:
{code}
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

{code}
and has not been edited since the clean Hardy install.

The machine has just been switched on after it Christmas holiday and it behaved exactly the same: the network is not started on boot, I have to login and run dhclient (and also hostname) manually, then manually mount the filestores. After that everything is fine.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Since this report have a long time without activity, could you check (if is possible) in latest version included in Karmic if this issue is still happening? Thanks in advance.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for network-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]