The man hours lost on this across the globe are rising. The sudo ifdown eth0; sudo ifup eth0 solution solves some of the problems but not all of them.
Either way, a better error message would be helpful in at least saving people from debugging why it doesn't work and then coming in here and ranting. -- 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 ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs