ubuntu problem

[Bill Christiansen]

Most probably the error message is correct in that something has
corrupted the backend script for the network settings. I would open
/etc/network/interfaces with a root text editor (sudo gedit) and see
if it has any suspicious lines. Here's what a good one should look
like (mine just has eth0 and static ip):
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface

# This is a list of hotpluggable network interfaces.
# They will be activated automatically by the hotplug subsystem.
mapping hotplug
	script grep
	map eth0

# The primary network interface
	# dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed


iface lo inet loopback

auto lo

iface eth0 inet static
name Ethernet LAN card
address 192.168.0.5
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.0.255
network 192.168.0.0
gateway 192.168.0.1

auto eth0



On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 15:40:22 +0800, GOvvin <govvin at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm on ubuntu 4.1 preview. It's been running fine for a few weeks now
> but now I have a problem: i can't configure my Network Settings. A
> popup will display "The configuration cannot be loaded. There was an
> error running the backend script."
> 
> Prior to this, I think I unchecked samba/windows networking from
> network settings. I believe that's the last thing I did before I
> encountered the error above. How can I rectify this?
> 
> thanks in advance.
> 
> PS
> I'm lookning at the system log viewer. the last entry says:
> sudo (pam_unix) authentication failure; logname= uid= euid= tty=
> ruser= rhost= user=myname
> /usr/bin/sudo erwin'TTY=unknown' PWD=/ User=root; COMMAND=/usr/bin/network-admin
> su + pts/0 root':root
> (pam_unix) session opened for user root by (uid=0)
> 
> PPS
> i'm new to linux. ;-)
> 
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