Comment 2 for bug 527790

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 497299, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

It would be very helpful if someone experiencing this error could verify that the ifupdown package in -proposed (0.6.8ubuntu21.2) resolves this issue & to comment with your results in bug 497299. For info regarding enabling the -proposed repository, please refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed.
Thanks in advance!