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Title:
New network-manager is not started at boot
Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu:
Expired
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.
Regards,
Mélodie
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