device state change: ip-config -> failed (reason 'ip-config-unavailable')

[Ric Moore]

On 12/14/2011 07:00 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>    after the wired network connection in my hotel room had *seemed* to
> be working for a short while, now i'm getting nothing, and all DHCP
> client attempts to connect generate this in /var/log/syslog:
>
> ... snip ...
> Dec 14 18:52:19 oneiric kernel: [ 2497.892781] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> Dec 14 18:52:28 oneiric NetworkManager[1067]:<info>  (eth0): IP6 addrconf timed out or failed.
> Dec 14 18:52:28 oneiric NetworkManager[1067]:<info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP6 Configure Timeout) scheduled...
> Dec 14 18:52:28 oneiric NetworkManager[1067]:<info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP6 Configure Timeout) started...
> Dec 14 18:52:28 oneiric NetworkManager[1067]:<info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit) started...
> Dec 14 18:52:28 oneiric NetworkManager[1067]:<info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit) failed (no IP configuration found)
> Dec 14 18:52:28 oneiric NetworkManager[1067]:<info>  (eth0): device state change: ip-config ->  failed (reason 'ip-config-unavailable') [70 120 5]
> Dec 14 18:52:28 oneiric NetworkManager[1067]:<info>  Marking connection 'Wired connection 1' invalid.
> Dec 14 18:52:28 oneiric NetworkManager[1067]:<warn>  Activation (eth0) failed.
> Dec 14 18:52:28 oneiric NetworkManager[1067]:<info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit) complete.
> Dec 14 18:52:28 oneiric NetworkManager[1067]:<info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP6 Configure Timeout) complete.
> Dec 14 18:52:28 oneiric NetworkManager[1067]:<info>  (eth0): device state change: failed ->  disconnected (reason 'none') [120 30 0]
> Dec 14 18:52:28 oneiric NetworkManager[1067]:<info>  (eth0): deactivating device (reason 'none') [0]
> Dec 14 18:52:28 oneiric NetworkManager[1067]:<info>  (eth0): canceled DHCP transaction, DHCP client pid 3718
>
>    very much like this report involving wlan0:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1863011.html
>
> the tech support guy for the hotel network was amazingly versed in
> ubuntu, and first asked me to try mii-tool, followed by ethtool, but
> no luck.  so i'm open to suggestions.
>
>    wireless is available but slow as heck, so i'd really like to figure
> out what the deal is with eth0.

I'm using wicd instead of network mangler. I couldn't take the pain any 
longer. I've read here, for some time, how others liked it and when NM 
decided to get weird, I ditched it a couple of evenings ago. So far, so 
good! I have a wired connection to a HughsNet Dish Sat modem and it 
would get wqonky with NM every once in awhile. No problems so far. Ric

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