Trying to find a solution for my problems with a clean installation of Linux Mint 13/Maya (32bit-MATE) I got here. I think I have the same issue. BTW, as I see Cisco VPN mentioned, I have the "vpnc" packaged installed.
Output of commands requested previously to other users; me@hostname ~ $ ls -l /etc/resolv.conf ls: cannot access /etc/resolv.conf: No such file or directory me@hostname ~ $ ls -l /run/resolvconf total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 Aug 15 17:36 interface -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 15 17:36 postponed-update me@hostname ~ $ ls -l /run/resolvconf/interface total 0 me@hostname ~ $ for F in /run/resolvconf/interface/* ; do echo "=== $F ===" ; cat "$F" ; done === /run/resolvconf/interface/* === cat: /run/resolvconf/interface/*: No such file or directory me@hostname ~ $ for F in /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/* ; do echo "=== $F ===" ; cat "$F" ; done === /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base === === /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/head === # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8) # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN me@hostname ~ $ cat /etc/resolv.conf cat: /etc/resolv.conf: No such file or directory me@hostname ~ $ lsattr /etc/resolv.conf lsattr: No such file or directory while trying to stat /etc/resolv.conf me@hostname ~ $ cat /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf [main] plugins=ifupdown,keyfile dns=dnsmasq [ifupdown] managed=false me@hostname ~ $ cat /run/nm-dns-dnsmasq.conf server={1st DNS Server of my ISP} server={2nd DNS Server of my ISP} me@hostname ~ $ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 114964972 29493104 79715248 28% / udev 1019020 4 1019016 1% /dev tmpfs 410512 1084 409428 1% /run none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock none 1026272 268 1026004 1% /run/shm me@hostname ~ $ me@hostname ~ $ sudo debconf-show resolvconf resolvconf/downup-interfaces: resolvconf/linkify-resolvconf: false resolvconf/link-tail-to-original: true resolvconf/fixing-immutable: resolvconf/reboot-recommended-after-removal: HTH. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1000244 Title: /etc/resolv.conf symlink does not exist after initial installation of resolvconf package To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/resolvconf/+bug/1000244/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs