This is still an issue on Precise Pangolin (12.04 LTS). It occurs rougly every minute. LAN port eth0 is unplugged. Syslog excerpt for one cycle follows:
May 22 09:51:27 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <warn> (eth0): DHCPv4 request timed out. May 22 09:51:27 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> (eth0): canceled DHCP transaction, DHCP client pid 1471 May 22 09:51:27 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv4 Configure Timeout) scheduled... May 22 09:51:27 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv4 Configure Timeout) started... May 22 09:51:27 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> (eth0): device state change: ip-config -> failed (reason 'ip-config-unavailable') [70 120 5] May 22 09:51:27 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <warn> Activation (eth0) failed. May 22 09:51:27 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv4 Configure Timeout) complete. May 22 09:51:27 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> (eth0): device state change: failed -> disconnected (reason 'none') [120 30 0] May 22 09:51:27 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> (eth0): deactivating device (reason 'none') [0] May 22 09:51:27 ppanda avahi-daemon[636]: Withdrawing address record for fe80::c60:89ff:fec2:4901 on eth0. May 22 09:51:27 ppanda avahi-daemon[636]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv6 with address fe80::c60:89ff:fec2:4901. May 22 09:51:27 ppanda avahi-daemon[636]: Interface eth0.IPv6 no longer relevant for mDNS. May 22 09:51:27 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> Policy set 'panishnethotspot' (wlan0) as default for IPv4 routing and DNS. May 22 09:51:27 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> Policy set 'panishnethotspot' (wlan0) as default for IPv4 routing and DNS. May 22 09:51:30 ppanda avahi-daemon[636]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv6 with address fe80::c60:89ff:fec2:4901. May 22 09:51:30 ppanda avahi-daemon[636]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv6 for mDNS. May 22 09:51:30 ppanda avahi-daemon[636]: Registering new address record for fe80::c60:89ff:fec2:4901 on eth0.*. May 22 09:51:31 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> Auto-activating connection 'Wired connection 1'. May 22 09:51:31 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> Activation (eth0) starting connection 'Wired connection 1' May 22 09:51:31 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> (eth0): device state change: disconnected -> prepare (reason 'none') [30 40 0] May 22 09:51:31 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled... May 22 09:51:31 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started... May 22 09:51:31 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled... May 22 09:51:31 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete. May 22 09:51:31 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting... May 22 09:51:31 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> (eth0): device state change: prepare -> config (reason 'none') [40 50 0] May 22 09:51:31 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) successful. May 22 09:51:31 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) scheduled. May 22 09:51:31 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete. May 22 09:51:31 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) started... May 22 09:51:31 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> (eth0): device state change: config -> ip-config (reason 'none') [50 70 0] May 22 09:51:31 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> Activation (eth0) Beginning DHCPv4 transaction (timeout in 45 seconds) May 22 09:51:31 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> dhclient started with pid 1473 May 22 09:51:31 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> Activation (eth0) Beginning IP6 addrconf. May 22 09:51:31 ppanda avahi-daemon[636]: Withdrawing address record for fe80::c60:89ff:fec2:4901 on eth0. May 22 09:51:31 ppanda avahi-daemon[636]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv6 with address fe80::c60:89ff:fec2:4901. May 22 09:51:31 ppanda avahi-daemon[636]: Interface eth0.IPv6 no longer relevant for mDNS. May 22 09:51:31 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) complete. May 22 09:51:31 ppanda dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.1-ESV-R4 May 22 09:51:31 ppanda dhclient: Copyright 2004-2011 Internet Systems Consortium. May 22 09:51:31 ppanda dhclient: All rights reserved. May 22 09:51:31 ppanda dhclient: For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ May 22 09:51:31 ppanda dhclient: May 22 09:51:31 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> (eth0): DHCPv4 state changed nbi -> preinit May 22 09:51:31 ppanda dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth0/0e:60:89:c2:49:01 May 22 09:51:31 ppanda dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth0/0e:60:89:c2:49:01 May 22 09:51:31 ppanda dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback May 22 09:51:31 ppanda dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 May 22 09:51:33 ppanda avahi-daemon[636]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv6 with address fe80::c60:89ff:fec2:4901. May 22 09:51:33 ppanda avahi-daemon[636]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv6 for mDNS. May 22 09:51:33 ppanda avahi-daemon[636]: Registering new address record for fe80::c60:89ff:fec2:4901 on eth0.*. May 22 09:51:34 ppanda dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 May 22 09:51:38 ppanda dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6 May 22 09:51:43 ppanda kernel: [ 4545.361145] eth0: no IPv6 routers present May 22 09:51:44 ppanda dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 May 22 09:51:51 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> (eth0): IP6 addrconf timed out or failed. May 22 09:51:51 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv6 Configure Timeout) scheduled... May 22 09:51:51 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv6 Configure Timeout) started... May 22 09:51:51 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv6 Configure Timeout) complete. May 22 09:51:55 ppanda dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15 May 22 09:52:10 ppanda dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13 May 22 09:52:16 ppanda NetworkManager[634]: <warn> (eth0): DHCPv4 request timed out. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/945300 Title: network manager repeatedly tries to connect wired connection To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-ti-omap4/+bug/945300/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs