Just like to add I see this problem too. My dnsmasq service starts as nobody maybe %20 of the time from a cold boot. And dns forwarding is broken at this time. Killing the process and restarting the service usually results in the dnsmasq service starting as "dnsmasq" like it should. But alas still no DNS forwarding and the only to get it working again is to reboot.
Not working nobody 1481 1055 0 7205 1240 0 17:23 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --no-resolv --keep-in-foreground --no-hosts --bind-interfaces --pid-file=/var/run/sendsigs.omit.d/network-manager.dnsmasq.pid --listen-address=127.0.0.1 --conf-file=/var/run/nm-dns-dnsmasq.conf --cache-size=0 --proxy-dnssec Working dnsmasq 1201 1 0 7205 992 0 17:58 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq -x /var/run/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.pid -u dnsmasq -r /var/run/dnsmasq/resolv.conf -7 /etc/dnsmasq.d,.dpkg-dist,.dpkg-old,.dpkg-new Xubuntu Server 12.04.2 w/ XFCE kernel: 3.2.0-45-generic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1105493 Title: network manager runs dnsmasq as user nobody To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1105493/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
