Network Mananger not setting IP on network card on Manual Configuration when done the first time

[Jerone Young]

Binary package hint: network-manager

Today's (April 15th) build of Fiesty. From a fresh install if the user goes to network manager and does "Manual Configuration" and sets a static IP for the network interface, Network Manager gives the appearnce that the IP has been set on the network interface. Yet when checked with ifconfig you see that the interface has no IP what so ever. This can be resolved by first disabling networking in network manager and then re-enabling it. But the user is left wondering the first time why they cannont get anywhere on their network.

Scenario
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- Machine is on dhcp network
- Go to network manager click "Manual Configuration"
- In network tool set static configuration
- Press ok
- See network manager animation .. you perceive all to be well
- Try to do something on network , can't do anything
- You see using ifconfig that the network interface does not have an IP address
- You go to network manager and disable Networking
- Then you go to network manger and enable Networking
- Works now

[Maciej Strzelecki (mstrzele)]

I can confirm this. I'm using Feisty build from April 15th too.

[Ross Peoples (deejross)]

I can also confirm this with Feisty with all updates as of today. The workaround I used was to set it back to DHCP, let it configure the connection, then set it back to static again. I also noted something else strange. When setting the static IP the first time, and closing the Network Configuration window. Re-opening the window showed I an empty host and domain name, empty DNS list, and empty Hosts list. Closing the window and reopening seemed to bring the information back.