After startup, why do I have to run /etc/init.d/networking restart for networking to work?
Ubuntu uses NetworkManager to handle your networking by default these days.
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid with pid 1421
is probably telling you that NetworkManager had already started dhclient for you.
You could verify that by running
ps -o ppid= -p 1421
then
ps -o cmd -p <the number printed by the above command>.
or do it in one step using
ps -o cmd -p `ps -o ppid= -p 1421`
changing 1421 to whatever pid the "There is already a pid file..." message says.
To configure NetworkManager, right click on the network icon in the corner of the screen, or run nm-tool
from the command line.
Google "NetworkManager" for more information.
And removing "lo" from /etc/network/interfaces sounds like a bad idea to me in any case.
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Dana the Sane about 1 year
I just fixed the grub install, and found that my wired network connection did not work. I eventually got it working, but each time I restart, I have to manually restart the networking service to bring up the network. How can get the network to come up automatically?
Here's the pertinent info.
Running
ifup
gave:$sudo ifup eth0 Unknown interface eth0=eth0
dhclient
, didn't work either. I eventually had a look at/etc/network/interfaces
, andeth0
was missing:auto lo iface lo inet loopback
which I changed to:
auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp #auto lo #iface lo inet loopback
The error produced by
ifup
went away butdhclient
still still wouldn't give me an ip, but restarting the network interface did:$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart * Reconfiguring network interfaces... RTNETLINK answers: No such process There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid with pid 1421 killed old client process, removed PID file Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3 Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ Listening on LPF/eth0/6c:f0:49:e3:26:fd Sending on LPF/eth0/6c:f0:49:e3:26:fd Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPRELEASE on eth0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67 send_packet: Network is unreachable send_packet: please consult README file regarding broadcast address. Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3 Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ Listening on LPF/eth0/6c:f0:49:e3:26:fd Sending on LPF/eth0/6c:f0:49:e3:26:fd Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6 DHCPOFFER of 192.168.1.101 from 192.168.1.1 DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.1.101 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK of 192.168.1.101 from 192.168.1.1 bound to 192.168.1.101 -- renewal in 37830 seconds. ssh stop/waiting ssh start/running, process 1801
Here are the related
syslog
entries for the system start up, and after restarting the network:Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.490593] type=1505 audit(1283535469.269:2): operation="profile_load" pid=735 name="/sbin/dhclient3" Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.490754] type=1505 audit(1283535469.269:3): operation="profile_load" pid=735 name="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action" Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.490833] type=1505 audit(1283535469.269:4): operation="profile_load" pid=735 name="/usr/lib/connman/scripts/dhclient-script" Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.670581] ACPI: resource piix4_smbus [0xb00-0xb07] conflicts with ACPI region SOR1 [0xb00-0xb0f] Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.670581] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.674793] EDAC MC: Ver: 2.1.0 Aug 19 2010 Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.680588] EDAC amd64_edac: Ver: 3.2.0 Aug 19 2010 Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.681182] EDAC amd64: This node reports that Memory ECC is currently disabled, set F3x44[22] (0000:00:18.3). Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.681196] EDAC amd64: ECC disabled in the BIOS or no ECC capability, module will not load. Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.681196] Either enable ECC checking or force module loading by setting 'ecc_enable_override'. Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.681196] (Note that use of the override may cause unknown side effects.) Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.681224] amd64_edac: probe of 0000:00:18.2 failed with error -22 Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.769839] alloc irq_desc for 16 on node 0 Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.769844] alloc kstat_irqs on node 0 Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.769860] HDA Intel 0000:00:14.2: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.823915] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30 Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.917876] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.917890] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.917899] vgaarb: device changed decodes: PCI:0000:01:00.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=io+mem Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 15.918099] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 195.36.24 Thu Apr 22 19:10:14 PDT 2010 Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 16.561300] r8169: eth0: link down Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 16.561648] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider kernel: [ 17.444914] EXT4-fs (sda3): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process (1038) terminated with status 1 Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process ended, respawning Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process (1045) terminated with status 1 Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process ended, respawning Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process (1050) terminated with status 1 Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process ended, respawning Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process (1055) terminated with status 1 Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process ended, respawning Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider avahi-daemon[957]: Network interface enumeration completed. Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider avahi-daemon[957]: Registering HINFO record with values 'X86_64'/'LINUX'. Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider avahi-daemon[957]: Server startup complete. Host name is storm-rider.local. Local service cookie is 49883856. Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process (1060) terminated with status 1 Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process ended, respawning Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process (1067) terminated with status 1 Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process ended, respawning Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process (1072) terminated with status 1 Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process ended, respawning Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process (1077) terminated with status 1 Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process ended, respawning Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process (1082) terminated with status 1 Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process ended, respawning Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd main process (1087) terminated with status 1 Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider init: smbd respawning too fast, stopped Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: update_connection_setting_from_if_block: name:eth0, type:802-3-ethernet, id:Ifupdown (eth0), uuid: 681b428f-beaf-8932-dce4-687ed5bae28e Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: autoconnect Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: SCPluginIfupdown: management mode: unmanaged Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0a.0/0000:03:00.0/net/eth0, iface: eth0) Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: SCPluginIfupdown: locking wired connection setting Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: Ifupdown: get unmanaged devices count: 1 Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: (37841184) ... get_connections. Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: (37841184) ... get_connections (managed=false): return empty list. Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: Ifupdown: get unmanaged devices count: 1 Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/lo, iface: lo) Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device added (path: /sys/devices/virtual/net/lo, iface: lo): no ifupdown configuration found. Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: end _init. Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: Loaded plugin ifupdown: (C) 2008 Canonical Ltd. To report bugs please use the NetworkManager mailing list. Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: Loaded plugin keyfile: (c) 2007 - 2008 Red Hat, Inc. To report bugs please use the NetworkManager mailing list. Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: <info> WiFi enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: <info> WWAN enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): carrier is OFF Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): new Ethernet device (driver: 'r8169') Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0 Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: <info> modem-manager is now available Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: <WARN> default_adapter_cb(): bluez error getting default adapter: The name org.bluez was not provided by any .service files Sep 3 13:38:50 storm-rider NetworkManager: <info> Trying to start the supplicant... Sep 3 13:38:51 storm-rider dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received. Sep 3 13:38:51 storm-rider dhclient: No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. Sep 3 13:38:51 storm-rider avahi-autoipd(eth0)[1103]: Found user 'avahi-autoipd' (UID 103) and group 'avahi-autoipd' (GID 110). Sep 3 13:38:51 storm-rider avahi-autoipd(eth0)[1103]: Successfully called chroot(). Sep 3 13:38:51 storm-rider avahi-autoipd(eth0)[1103]: Successfully dropped root privileges. Sep 3 13:38:51 storm-rider avahi-autoipd(eth0)[1103]: Starting with address 169.254.10.181 Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider gdm-session-worker[1113]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_value_get_boolean: assertion `G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOOLEAN (value)' failed Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider rtkit-daemon[1197]: Sucessfully called chroot. Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider rtkit-daemon[1197]: Sucessfully dropped privileges. Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider rtkit-daemon[1197]: Sucessfully limited resources. Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider rtkit-daemon[1197]: Running. Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider rtkit-daemon[1197]: Canary thread running. Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider rtkit-daemon[1197]: Watchdog thread running. Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider polkitd[1203]: started daemon version 0.96 using authority implementation `local' version `0.96' Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider rtkit-daemon[1197]: Sucessfully made thread 1195 of process 1195 (n/a) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11. Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider rtkit-daemon[1197]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users. Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider NetworkManager: <info> Unmanaged Device found; state CONNECTED forced. (see http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191889) Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider NetworkManager: <info> Unmanaged Device found; state CONNECTED forced. (see http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191889) Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider rtkit-daemon[1197]: Sucessfully made thread 1241 of process 1195 (n/a) owned by '1000' RT at priority 5. Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider rtkit-daemon[1197]: Supervising 2 threads of 1 processes of 1 users. Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider rtkit-daemon[1197]: Sucessfully made thread 1242 of process 1195 (n/a) owned by '1000' RT at priority 5. Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider rtkit-daemon[1197]: Supervising 3 threads of 1 processes of 1 users. Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider rtkit-daemon[1197]: Sucessfully made thread 1244 of process 1244 (n/a) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11. Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider rtkit-daemon[1197]: Supervising 4 threads of 2 processes of 1 users. Sep 3 13:38:52 storm-rider pulseaudio[1244]: pid.c: Daemon already running. Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider anacron[1405]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2010-09-03 Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.823450] CPU0 attaching NULL sched-domain. Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.823454] CPU1 attaching NULL sched-domain. Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.823456] CPU2 attaching NULL sched-domain. Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.823457] CPU3 attaching NULL sched-domain. Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.823458] CPU4 attaching NULL sched-domain. Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.823460] CPU5 attaching NULL sched-domain. Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903191] CPU0 attaching sched-domain: Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903193] domain 0: span 0-5 level MC Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903195] groups: 0 1 2 3 4 5 Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903199] CPU1 attaching sched-domain: Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903200] domain 0: span 0-5 level MC Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903201] groups: 1 2 3 4 5 0 Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903203] CPU2 attaching sched-domain: Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903204] domain 0: span 0-5 level MC Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903205] groups: 2 3 4 5 0 1 Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903208] CPU3 attaching sched-domain: Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903209] domain 0: span 0-5 level MC Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903210] groups: 3 4 5 0 1 2 Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903212] CPU4 attaching sched-domain: Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903213] domain 0: span 0-5 level MC Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903214] groups: 4 5 0 1 2 3 Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903216] CPU5 attaching sched-domain: Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903217] domain 0: span 0-5 level MC Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider kernel: [ 79.903218] groups: 5 0 1 2 3 4 Sep 3 13:38:53 storm-rider anacron[1405]: Normal exit (0 jobs run) Sep 3 13:38:56 storm-rider avahi-autoipd(eth0)[1103]: Callout BIND, address 169.254.10.181 on interface eth0 Sep 3 13:38:56 storm-rider avahi-daemon[957]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 169.254.10.181. Sep 3 13:38:56 storm-rider avahi-daemon[957]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS. Sep 3 13:38:56 storm-rider avahi-daemon[957]: Registering new address record for 169.254.10.181 on eth0.IPv4. Sep 3 13:39:00 storm-rider avahi-autoipd(eth0)[1103]: Successfully claimed IP address 169.254.10.181 Sep 3 13:39:14 storm-rider init: ssh main process (944) terminated with status 255 Sep 3 13:39:14 storm-rider ntpdate[1514]: can't find host ntp.ubuntu.com Sep 3 13:39:14 storm-rider ntpdate[1514]: no servers can be used, exiting Sep 3 13:39:54 storm-rider AptDaemon: INFO: Initializing daemon Sep 3 13:40:13 storm-rider dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3 Sep 3 13:40:13 storm-rider dhclient: Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium. Sep 3 13:40:13 storm-rider dhclient: All rights reserved. Sep 3 13:40:13 storm-rider dhclient: For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ Sep 3 13:40:13 storm-rider dhclient: Sep 3 13:40:13 storm-rider avahi-autoipd(eth0)[1103]: Got SIGTERM, quitting. Sep 3 13:40:13 storm-rider avahi-autoipd(eth0)[1103]: Callout STOP, address 169.254.10.181 on interface eth0 Sep 3 13:40:13 storm-rider avahi-daemon[957]: Withdrawing address record for 169.254.10.181 on eth0. Sep 3 13:40:13 storm-rider avahi-daemon[957]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 169.254.10.181. Sep 3 13:40:13 storm-rider avahi-daemon[957]: Interface eth0.IPv4 no longer relevant for mDNS. Sep 3 13:40:13 storm-rider dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth0/6c:f0:49:e3:26:fd Sep 3 13:40:13 storm-rider dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth0/6c:f0:49:e3:26:fd Sep 3 13:40:13 storm-rider dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback Sep 3 13:40:17 storm-rider dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 Sep 3 13:40:25 storm-rider dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid with pid 1421 Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: killed old client process, removed PID file Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3 Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium. Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: All rights reserved. Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth0/6c:f0:49:e3:26:fd Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth0/6c:f0:49:e3:26:fd Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: DHCPRELEASE on eth0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67 Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: send_packet: Network is unreachable Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: send_packet: please consult README file regarding broadcast address. Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3 Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium. Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: All rights reserved. Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider NetworkManager: <info> (eth0): carrier now ON (device state 1) Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider kernel: [ 186.096615] r8169: eth0: link up Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth0/6c:f0:49:e3:26:fd Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth0/6c:f0:49:e3:26:fd Sep 3 13:40:39 storm-rider dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback Sep 3 13:40:41 storm-rider avahi-daemon[957]: Registering new address record for fe80::6ef0:49ff:fee3:26fd on eth0.*. Sep 3 13:40:43 storm-rider dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6 Sep 3 13:40:43 storm-rider dhclient: DHCPOFFER of 192.168.1.101 from 192.168.1.1 Sep 3 13:40:43 storm-rider dhclient: DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.1.101 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 Sep 3 13:40:43 storm-rider dhclient: DHCPACK of 192.168.1.101 from 192.168.1.1 Sep 3 13:40:43 storm-rider avahi-daemon[957]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.101. Sep 3 13:40:43 storm-rider avahi-daemon[957]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS. Sep 3 13:40:43 storm-rider avahi-daemon[957]: Registering new address record for 192.168.1.101 on eth0.IPv4. Sep 3 13:40:43 storm-rider dhclient: bound to 192.168.1.101 -- renewal in 37830 seconds.