Looks like you're right. Running that gives the response: method return sender=:1.1 -> dest=:1.20 uint32 0
However looking at what runs before and after with 'ps -ef | grep dbus' I can see that a new process begins running after running your command: /sbin/dhclient -1 -lf /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.ra0.leases -pf /var/run/dhclient.ra0.pid -q -e dhc_dbus=0 -d ra0 This seems to just sit around blocking - killing it and running it causes it to sit on the command line without an IP address being allocated to ra0. The file /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.ra0.leases looks like it has correct data for a lease - however its not configuring the interface with it. -- rt2500 card not getting dhcp lease https://launchpad.net/bugs/51081 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs