Comment 4 for bug 297745

I can confirm this bug on a fresh ubuntu 10.04.4 (lucid). All you have to do to reproduce is installing, open network manager, set static ip adress and you'll see that you are disconnected (and never connected back on the new static IP).

It means in clear, that if you need to change the ip adress remotely, you're busted.

I followed instructions for debug ( https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingNetworkManager#Getting_NetworkManager_debug_logs )

I get the following error.

$ sudo python debug-helper.py --nm debug
[sudo] password for sound4:
Setting NetworkManager log level to 'debug'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "debug-helper.py", line 37, in <module>
    nm.SetLogging(args.do_set_nm_logging, ','.join(args.log_domains))
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 68, in __call__
    return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/proxies.py", line 140, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/dbus/connection.py", line 620, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "SetLogging" with signature "ss" on interface "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" doesn't exist

PS: I am running the fresh install from virtualbox.