Hello, I had the same issue with the boot process hanging during the "configuring network interfaces" stage and I solved it reverting the change in /etc/network/interfaces that very likely happened during the upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10.
In 8.04 I had in /etc/network/interfaces the following lines: auto eth0 #iface eth0 inet dhcp After the upgrade to 8.10, I found in /etc/network/interfaces that the following line was uncommented: iface eth0 inet dhcp and that is what is causing the hang during boot. I just commented it back and now I have no hang at boot and as a nice side effect, now also the wired network interface can be managed from the Network Manager. I did not find yet any downside, so feel free to try this change and report back any issue. Thanks, Paolo -- "configuring network interfaces" hangs with auto eth0 in /etc/network/interfaces and cable unplugged https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/288303 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
