nm-applet won't stop spinning for wired connection

[Mark A. Hershberger]

Binary package hint: network-manager

nm-applet won't connect to the wired network connection properly. It connects, I can ping out, but it won't stop spinning. There is some step that it hasn't yet completed because it drops the connection and re-negotiates DHCP.

I can watch this with a ping session. Everything will ping fine for a minute or so, then there will be a 5-6 second period where nm-applet will try to renegotiate DHCP and the connection is dropped.

I have another Ubuntu Gutsy laptop on the same network and it works fine. Which leads me to believe I've screwed something up in the configuration.

[David Jaša (dejv)]

Could you please run Wireshark listening on "port 67" and attach capture file here? It's got similar symptoms as my bug #190142.

[Mark A. Hershberger (hexmode)]

Attached is the result of sniffing traffic with wireshark and trimming out everything but IGMP, DHCP and a couple of stray DNS packets.

This does look identical to bug #190142 as running "dhclient eth0" by hand does not show the same problem.

[Basilio Kublik (sourcercito)]

Hi there
do you still experience this issue with the current version of the application?, could you please try to reproduce this using the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Hardy Heron.

Thanks in advance

[David Jaša (dejv)]

I don't experience this anymore.

[JB (ubuntu-j-bg)]

I get the same thing with a wireless network. It all connects, I can browse the web, but nm-applet never stops spinning and doesn't add the network to the list of saved wireless networks.

[Kenneth Wimer (kwwii)]

I have the same problem but here it does not connect. Both green balls are lit up in the applet and it keeps spinning forever although I cannot ping out, etc.