Hi, I have used your information and now indeed all works fine. I will even remove network-manager and network-manager-gnome and retry wicd.
However, and although I know Ubuntu distributions mostly, I am more an Archlinux user, so editing files from the system don't worry me personnally. But I am very much interested in using Ubuntu once a while, in contributing a little (when I can) and I am even more interested in installing a Ubuntu on the machines of the people I know around me. So I would have a question regarding this issue. As Ubuntu is meant to be the very easiest distributions for all, and to avoid having to edit some files in the system, which are mostly unknown by the end users, shouldn't there be some kind of process implemented to avoid this "gloubi-glouba" and therefore avoid having to edit /etc/network/interfaces ? :) Thanks. ** Attachment added: "interfaces" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1080454/+attachment/3453230/+files/interfaces -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1080454 Title: New network-manager is not started at boot Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Hi, I am using Ubuntu Precise Mini built with Lightdm and Openbox. $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS Release: 12.04 At first I had wicd, and found that the boot was delayed too much, so I did a search on the web and found this bug report which was looking like the problem I met with: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+source/console- common/+bug/881079 This is how I removed wicd, wicd-gtk... and installed network-manager instead. Then I could not have a connection unless I started it from console with dhclient : "sudo dhclient eth1" (with eth0 it said there was no eth0 interface available). Ok that worked, but still network- manager would not start at boot. So I did again a search on the web and found this thread related to my problem: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=12016190 I followed the advice given, did a downgrade of the said packages and posted about all this here at then end of that thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12361224#post12361224 please read the above post, I have given useful informations found in logs in that one post, and information about packages I have installed, related to network. After I read the first post of that thread I replaced the newer packages with these ones: libnm-glib4_0.9.4.0-0ubuntu3_i386.deb, libnm-glib-vpn1_0.9.4.0-0ubuntu3_i386.deb, libnm-util2_0.9.4.0-0ubuntu3_i386.deb, network-manager_0.9.4.0-0ubuntu3_i386.deb, network-manager-dbg_0.9.4.0-0ubuntu3_i386.deb but the network-manager-gnome has only the latest version available therefore I have these installed at the moment: libnm-gtk-common (0.9.4.1-0ubuntu2) libnm-gtk0 (0.9.4.1-0ubuntu2) network-manager-gnome (0.9.4.1-0ubuntu2) and the packages from the former version of network-manager as mentioned above. The result : now network-manager is started at boot and the wired connection IS AVAILABLE as soon as the desktop is up and running. However I regret that I can still see in the boot sequence the message : "Waiting up to 60 more seconds for network configuration" whereas I have already waited for a bunch of seconds at the message just before "waiting for network configuration". This happens in two machines at home. About the new network-manager : the version number 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu3 has this in the file /etc/init/network-manager.conf: ******************************* # network-manager - network connection manager # # The Network Manager daemon manages the system's network connections, # automatically switching between the best available. description "network connection manager" start on (local-filesystems and started dbus) stop on stopping dbus expect fork respawn script # set $LANG so that messages appearing on the GUI will be translated. See LP: 875017 if [ -r /etc/default/locale ]; then . /etc/default/locale export LANG LANGUAGE LC_MESSAGES LC_ALL fi exec NetworkManager end script ******************************* and after I reinstall the newer packages: ******************************* libnm-glib-vpn1 (version 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu3) sera mis à niveau vers la version 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu4.1 libnm-glib4 (version 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu3) sera mis à niveau vers la version 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu4.1 libnm-util2 (version 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu3) sera mis à niveau vers la version 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu4.1 network-manager (version 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu3) sera mis à niveau vers la version 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu4.1 network-manager-dbg (version 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu3) sera mis à niveau vers la version 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu4.1 ******************************* I noticed there is a new line related to a process needing to be started before network-manager: ****************************** # network-manager - network connection manager # # The Network Manager daemon manages the system's network connections, # automatically switching between the best available. description "network connection manager" start on (local-filesystems and started dbus and static-network-up) stop on stopping dbus expect fork respawn script # set $LANG so that messages appearing on the GUI will be translated. See LP: 875017 if [ -r /etc/default/locale ]; then . /etc/default/locale export LANG LANGUAGE LC_MESSAGES LC_ALL fi exec NetworkManager end script ****************************** which in the "start on" block text is "and static-network-up". I wonder if the problem of network-manager not being started at boot in my install is not due to this line for some reason ? To end with, for any network manager tool, why is there always this incredible delay during the boot due to this long network connection attempt going on ? Here more configuration files, that's bootchart files done with the older network-manager configuation files: http://meets.free.fr/files/bootchart.tar.gz Thanks for giving this bug all the necessary care. I think it might be also considered as a regression. 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