severity 408292 important severity 431427 important merge 431427 415891 408292 thanks
This problem occurs, when you have multiple network interfaces, and one is configured (to use a static ip) via /etc/network/interfaces. NM will ignore this interface, but as there are other network interfaces, it will manage these interfaces and try to establish a connection via one of them. If dhcp fails for that interface, it tries to get a LinkLocal IP address and /etc/resolv.conf is overwritten with an empty file. Ubuntu has a patch, which treats interfaces defined via /etc/network/interfaces as "always up" and ignores them too. A better solution obviously is, to make NM also understand a static configuration, so it can manage such interfaces. The next major release, 0.7 is said to bring support for static configurations natively, As a workaround for now, you can disable the other network interfaces in your system for NM, by specifying them in /etc/network/interfaces until a better solution is found. nm-tool will list all interfaces in you system. If you add entries like iface ethX inet manual NM, will ignore them. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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