It seems this was actually changed as of Ubuntu Saucy 13.10, as restart --system networking and /etc/init.d/networking both failed...
At this point, its faster/reliable to reboot my machine (10 seconds), than it is to open a terminal, and "ifdown --exclude=lo -a && sudo ifup --exclude=lo -a"..... init.d has always worked, including the many custom embedded Linux machines I develop for. At least a better error message must be shown in the init.d output. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1301015 Title: Networking does not restart To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ifupdown/+bug/1301015/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
