This has been tracked down to a bug in the resolvconf package, causing /etc/network/if-up.d/000resolvconf to fail and taking the rest of the ifupdown hooks with it.
We can't create the initial /etc/resolv.conf symlink from the upstart job when using the live installer, because the job is never run until boot - and at the time it runs (start on mounted MOUNTPOINT=/run), the root fs is not writable. So this symlinking *must* be done in the postinst. Targeting to beta-1 because we don't want to unsettle this for alpha-2. ** Package changed: ifupdown (Ubuntu Precise) => resolvconf (Ubuntu Precise) ** Changed in: resolvconf (Ubuntu Precise) Status: Incomplete => Triaged ** Changed in: resolvconf (Ubuntu Precise) Milestone: None => ubuntu-12.04-beta-1 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/924836 Title: network-manager does not tell plymouth it has started Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “resolvconf” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “network-manager” source package in Precise: Invalid Status in “resolvconf” source package in Precise: Triaged Bug description: On installing Kubuntu alpha 2 candidates I have an error on first boot of the installed system. Plymouth says "waiting for network setup" or similar. I think network-manager is not telling plymouth it has started. By the the time the full system does start network-manager works fine. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/924836/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp