Public bug reported: (This is a repost of bug #82248 that was misfiled in the ubuntu-iso- tests section, so I file it here anew. It also has appeared independently today in the Feisty Fawn Discussions in Ubuntu forums and does not seem to be a duplicate of any other bug.)
Builds affected: - feisty 20070129 and 20070130 amd desktop live as vm guests in XP SP2. This bug has never appeared in any dapper, edgy or feisty build I ever tested. - Also upgrading to feisty from edgy also leads to the same problem, as reported in http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=349195 Symptoms: - Feisty in vm does not have any network connectivity, although dhcp assigned valid ip, gateway and dns addresses. - In addition, booting once a live cd feisty session totally corrupts the nat service (vmnat.exe) so that subsequent attempts to exit vmware workstation and rerun it still do not provide connectivity. The only solution is to kill (not stop and start) the vmnat.exe process and restart the service. How to reproduce: 1. From a working vmware workstation boot the feisty iso. Networking will not work. 2. Boot another vm (windows or linux) in a second window. The second vm will not have network too. 3. Shut down feisty. The second vm will still have no network, whatever you do. You think that nat networking should be restarted. 4. Shut down the second vm and try to restart the nat service from the menu Edit-Virtual Network Settings in vmware. It will not work. 5. Exit vmware. Go to windows services and see vmware nat service properties: vmnet.exe will be shown as "stopping" and all service buttons inactive. No way to restart the service. 6. Go to Task Manager and kill vmnat.exe. It will be killed. Go again to services and start the vmnat service. It will start. 7. Boot your second vm (not feisty) in vmware. It will have network normally. Please provide a way to produce "crash" logs for this bug, I have no idea how to proceed. ** Affects: Ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- feisty amd64 desktop-live corrupts vmnat service in vmware https://launchpad.net/bugs/82367 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
