How do I get the default Network Manager plus dnsmasq-base setup back again?

[Tom H]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 05:31:59PM -0500, Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> All I get to see in /var/log/syslog (about dnsmasq) is:-
>>>
>>>     Jan  9 14:51:03 test NetworkManager[872]: <info> DNS: loaded plugin dnsmasq
>>>
>>> Network Manager continues to report all sorts of other things happening but not a thing
>>> about dnsmasq. It's like dnsmasq simply hangs when it's loaded.
>>
>> No idea what to do next except possibly add the following to
>> "/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf" and hope that the more
>> verbose logging'll yield an explanation/solution:
>>
>> [logging]
>> level=DEBUG
>>
> That hasn't added anything (about dnsmasq) to the syslog after the
> initial "DNS: loaded plugin dnsmasq" as before.
>
> As I said a clean install of ubuntu 12.10 64-bit on another system shows
> the same symptoms, nothing at all happens after the "DNS: loaded plugin
> dnsmasq".  I'm beginning to think this may be a bug in 12.10 rather than
> a configuration problem.

The amd64 VM that I built was OK so it must be something else.