Comment 7 for bug 94095

Hi Ubuntu Team,
I have the April 10 updates. Unfortunately, I still need to manually click
on the double-monitor icon and select "wired network" every time I boot up
my Ubuntu 7.04. Older versions didn't do this. Is it going to be fixed in an
update?

Mark Anton

On 4/10/07, folkoy <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi Robert,
> My Feisty just got update few minutes ago (april 10). I rebooted
> and
> the ethernet connection was not setup after reboot. I had to click again
> on the small network applet in toolbar and select "Wired Connection".
>
> I tried to change the config of the network interface in "Network
> Settings" to enable Roaming mode. I rebooted and still the network
> interface is not enabled after I logged in. So I disabled the "Roaming
> mode", rebooted and did the following commands;
>
> Immediately after reboot here is the state of my eth0;
> $ sudo ifconfig eth0
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:2C:08:B9:02
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:26 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:13852 (13.5 KiB) TX bytes:1216 (1.1 KiB)
> Interrupt:19 Base address:0x9800
>
> Then I tried to bringup and got the following message;
> $ sudo ifup eth0
> ifup: interface eth0 already configured
>
> Then I tried to bring down and bring back up and it worked;
> $ sudo ifdown eth0
> There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid with pid 4078
> killed old client process, removed PID file
> Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4
> ...
>
> $ sudo ifup eth0
> There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid with pid
> 134993416
> Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4
> Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
> All rights reserved.
> For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
>
> Listening on LPF/eth0/00:50:2c:08:b9:02
> Sending on LPF/eth0/00:50:2c:08:b9:02
> Sending on Socket/fallback
> DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
> DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20
> DHCPOFFER from 192.168.0.175
> DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> DHCPACK from 192.168.0.175
> bound to 192.168.0.100 -- renewal in 65270 seconds.
>
> At that point the inerface is fine and up although the applet still
> beleive the network interface is still off (this was expected).
>
> Here is my interface file;
> ~$ sudo cat /etc/network/interfaces
> # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
> # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
>
> # The loopback network interface
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> # The primary network interface
>
>
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
> auto eth0
>
>
> This bug is still not fixed.
>
> Are you ok to re-open the bug?
>
> Is there any test I can do on my machine or any files I need to check?
>
> What should I do to re-open the bug, can we transition the bug from
> fixed to non fixed. I guess the priority is at least medium if not high.
>
> thanks
> Steve
>
>
> On Tue, 2007-10-04 at 15:28 +0000, Robert Clark wrote:
> > This issue was apparently fixed through one of the feisty updates. I
> > have not had any Ethernet configuration at startup up issues for over a
> > week now.
> >
> > I consider this bug Fixed. Thanks Ubuntu Team!
> >
>
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> Ethernet interface not configured at boot time
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