[LUNI] Networking not starting automatically

[Jeff D]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Mike Fried wrote:

> Can anyone point me in the right direction on the following issue?
> I have an Ubuntu 9.10 sever that at some point stopped starting up
> networking after a reboot.  In fact,  the typical command:
>
>         /etc/init.d/networking start
>
> will not start it after a reboot.  While
>
>         /etc/init.d/networking restart
>
> always works.  This also works directly after a reboot:
>
>         /etc/init.d/networking stop
>         /etc/init.d/networking start
>
> I've confirmed that /etc/rc2.d does contain
> S99networking (which is a link to /etc/init.d/networking).
>
> Finally, I edited /etc/init.d/networking such that when called
> with "start" is an argument it calls /lib/init/upstart-job with
> "restart" instead of "start".
>
> None of these things have helped and networking always
> has to be manually started as described above.  Does
> update-rc.d figure into this?
>

Have you checked in /etc/init/networking.conf and
/etc/init/network-interface.conf ?  From the looks of it, looks like you
might have some issues with upstart.

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