Network-config doesn't start the network

[Bogdan Butnaru]

Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools

Hi! I have a Dell Latitude D620 laptop, which includes both wireless and Ethernet adapters. For some reason, the network-admin applet doesn't seem to work anymore. It worked just fine a couple of hours ago.

I have an ADSL modem+router that allows both wired and wireless connection at home. I prefer to use wireless, and it worked just fine until this morning. I went to school, where I use a wired connection. Everything (at home and at school) is DHCP-configured.

For some reason when I got home I couldn't get the network-admin applet to do anything. I would click on the network icon on the panel, pick my ssid and enter the password for the wireless link, enable DHCP, click OK, and nothing happens.

As far as I can tell, some Perl scripts are frozen:

bogdanb@bogdanb-laptop:~$ ps -A -f |grep perl
root 6151 1 0 21:09 ? 00:00:00 perl /usr/share//system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/SystemToolsBackends.pl -m HostsConfig
root 6155 1 0 21:09 ? 00:00:00 perl /usr/share//system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/SystemToolsBackends.pl -m Platform
root 6161 1 1 21:09 ? 00:00:00 perl /usr/share//system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/SystemToolsBackends.pl -m IfacesConfig
bogdanb 6234 6057 0 21:09 pts/0 00:00:00 grep perl

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I couldn't get the wired connection either, but I'm not sure if it's because there's some process hanging. (I did kill the perl scripts before trying, though.)

After several trials I had to enable the wired connection by hand ("ifconfig eth0 up" and "dhclient eth0"). I have no idea how to start the wireless by hand, though.

Let me know if there's any info that I can give to elucidate this.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? May you try to reproduce this with a newer version of Ubuntu like Gutsy? Thanks in advance.

[Bogdan Butnaru (bogdanb)]

Hi, thanks for reminding me of this. It's working now, you can close this safely.