Since reporting this bug, I have been using the VM snapshot taken prior to reporting it. I've now retried adding the avahi updates; and this time I didn't see the same problems.
I haven't a clue what went wrong before, but I'm prepared to accept a cosmic ray as the reason. -- Avahi update causes internet connetions to fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/652870 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-nettool in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs