First post here I think
I have a 14.10 box that used to be a 14.04 box. It's a media centre.
When it was a 14.04 box it booted up fine. Now though it doesn't. When it boots it pauses on "Waiting for Network configuration" for about 3 minutes. Then when it finally come up it doesn't start any network interfaces.
sudo service network-manager start
will get things going again but I can't keep doing it for life. Please help me to figure out how to get it to start automatically again.
I'm on the verge of reinstalling but in the interests of overcoming problems rather than just trying to avoid them I thought I'd ask here.
Some google results keeps pointing me to a problem with /etc/network/interfaces
but I've even gone so far as removing this file and I still have no luck.
Hoping you folks can help. This is pretty frustrating.
Happy to post contents of whatever would help.
Best Answer
Your problem is that you have removed the file /etc/network/interfaces; you need this file.
The network configuration hangup at boot time is a common issue. To recreate the file, open a terminal and execute the following command:
Then, copy and paste the following into the file:
Press CTRL + o and then press ENTER to save the file. Press CTRL + x to exit the file.
Restart network-manager:
Finally, to make it start up automatically execute the following command:
Reboot to check your work.
Please post any errors or fail.
If that doesn't work, edit /etc/init/failsafe.conf:
Look for "sleep" and change the number from 20 to 5 so that it looks like this:
Then comment out the following lines by placing a # at the beginning of each line so they look like this:
This changes the wait time from 2 minutes to 5 seconds.
One last thing you can do is reinstall network-manager to replace any missing files: