network manager reports connectivity when there isn't any after a hard reboot
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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network-manager (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When doing hard reboots after an X crash, nm-applet reports that it's connected normally, yet nothing requiring network connectivity actually works. This is resolved by doing a soft reboot (from logged in, not from the login screen), until the next hard reboot.
At the beginning of booting, there are several lines about networking stuff: resolvconf, dnsmasq, and maybe something else. One of those lines changes from 1st (hard) reboot to 2nd (soft) reboot, which is probably useful information, but I can't read it as it flies by, and I can't scroll back to it in CTRL-ALT-F8... I'm sure you can tell me how to get it somehow
I'm using Jaunty, with dnsmasq set up to cache dns locally (using instructions from http://
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