Wired network does not work after 8.10 upgrade
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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network-manager (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: choose-mirror
I upgraded from 8.04.1 to 8.10 I have an old stupid Belkin firewall router
This was from /var/log/daemon.log using 8.04.1
Jan 21 10:31:27 JANES-LINUX NetworkManager: <info> DHCP daemon state is now 4 (reboot) for interface eth0
Jan 21 10:31:27 JANES-LINUX NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP Configure Get) scheduled...
Jan 21 10:31:27 JANES-LINUX NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP Configure Get) started...
Jan 21 10:31:27 JANES-LINUX NetworkManager: <info> Retrieved the following IP4 configuration from the DHCP daemon:
Jan 21 10:31:27 JANES-LINUX NetworkManager: <info> address 192.168.2.11
Jan 21 10:31:27 JANES-LINUX NetworkManager: <info> netmask 255.255.255.0
Jan 21 10:31:27 JANES-LINUX NetworkManager: <info> broadcast 255.255.255.255
Jan 21 10:31:27 JANES-LINUX NetworkManager: <info> gateway 192.168.2.1
Jan 21 10:31:27 JANES-LINUX NetworkManager: <info> nameserver 192.168.2.1
Jan 21 10:31:27 JANES-LINUX NetworkManager: <info> domain name 'ph.cox.net'
Jan 21 10:31:27 JANES-LINUX NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit) scheduled...
Jan 21 10:31:27 JANES-LINUX NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP Configure Get) complete.
Jan 21 10:31:27 JANES-LINUX NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit) started...
This was from /var/log/daemon.log after upgrading to 8.10
Jan 22 09:55:26 JANES-LINUX NetworkManager: <info> DHCP: device eth0 state changed preinit -> bound
Jan 22 09:55:26 JANES-LINUX NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP Configure Get) scheduled...
Jan 22 09:55:26 JANES-LINUX NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP Configure Get) started...
Jan 22 09:55:26 JANES-LINUX NetworkManager: <info> address 192.168.2.11
Jan 22 09:55:26 JANES-LINUX NetworkManager: <info> prefix 24 (255.255.255.0)
Jan 22 09:55:26 JANES-LINUX NetworkManager: <info> gateway 192.168.2.1
Jan 22 09:55:26 JANES-LINUX NetworkManager: <info> nameserver '192.168.2.1'
Jan 22 09:55:26 JANES-LINUX NetworkManager: <info> domain name 'ph.cox.net'
Jan 22 09:55:26 JANES-LINUX dhclient: bound to 192.168.2.11 -- renewal in 914840321 seconds.
Jan 22 09:55:26 JANES-LINUX NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit) scheduled...
Jan 22 09:55:26 JANES-LINUX NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP Configure Get) complete.
Jan 22 09:55:26 JANES-LINUX NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit) started...
Jan 22 09:55:26 JANES-LINUX avahi-daemon[4771]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.2.11.
Jan 22 09:55:26 JANES-LINUX avahi-daemon[4771]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Jan 22 09:55:26 JANES-LINUX avahi-daemon[4771]: Registering new address record for 192.168.2.11 on eth0.IPv4.
Jan 22 09:55:27 JANES-LINUX NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): device state change: 7 -> 8
Jan 22 09:55:27 JANES-LINUX NetworkManager: <WARN> add_ip4_
Jan 22 09:55:27 JANES-LINUX NetworkManager: <info> Policy set 'Auto eth0' (eth0) as default for routing and DNS.
Jan 22 09:55:27 JANES-LINUX NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) successful, device activated.
Jan 22 09:55:27 JANES-LINUX NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit) complete.
I noticed the network info displayed by NetworkManager was very different. The thing I really noticed was the quotes around the nameserver address in 8.10 and not 8.04.1
I was able to fix the problem by adding this to /etc/dhcp3/
# Added by Jerry
#supersede netmask 255.255.255.0
#supersede broadcast 255.255.255.255
supersede nameserver 192.168.2.1
# end Added by Jerry
After trial and error and numerous reboots I found the only thing needed was the nameserver option. I do not know if the problem is with dhclient or NetworkManager. I read through several problems in the forum with 8.10 networking that might be the same as this.
I don't know where this really belongs, but choose-mirror definitely isn't it - that's a component of the installer that deals with mirror selection. Reassigning to network-manager for further analysis.