NIC goes down upon Gnome logout

[Lee Braiden]

On Monday 05 September 2005 11:37, Ryan Jacobs wrote:
> If I login as an admin user directly to the local Gnome interface, and
> later logout back to the default graphical welcome/login screen, one of
> the servers NICs dies (upon logout). "Dies" is the only term I can think
> of because logging back in and checking the status shows that it's
> enabled, and an ifconfig shows that its retained it's setting and is
> active. However, pinging anything through this NIC (from outside to the
> server, or from the server outside) simply fails. The only way to get it
> working again is a reboot.

Are you running (or have you previously used) a GUI-based firewall utility?  
Sounds like the firewall is blocking everything on logout.

-- 
Lee Braiden
http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com
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