Comment 32 for bug 114505

BUG CONFIRMED
A WORKAROUND FOUND

heindsight's method worked for me, with one additional change that he also suggested at
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=647559&page=5 ...

specifically, changing S24dhcdbd to S13dhcdbd in /etc/rc[2,3,4,5].d (I used "sysv-rc-conf -p ' by the way) so NetworkManager gets eth0 up faster .

On my computer, that eliminated eth0 trying and failing to start about seven times before succeeding.

With that change to dhcdbd startup priority and the previously suggested change, I end up with:

- eth0 starts one time
- there is an extraneous ntpd start that fails to get associations
- heindsight's script stops ntp, runs ntpdate, then restarts ntp, successfully

Other than the extraneous ntpd "too early" start, this is exactly the sequence desired, so I consider my system fixed.

This, or an equivalent change accomplishing the same thing, needs to be implemented by the devs ASAP.