Same occurs with: sudo service networking restart
All running apps including the panel are closed. The terminal window from where the command was launched remains visible but is unresponsive. As reported by tbys, the only recovery I have found is to drop to a non graphic tty and reboot. This is on a 2012 MacBook Pro i7 with wired network and no wireless: Linux MacBuntu 3.5.0-18-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 19 10:26:51 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1072518 Title: Restarting network crashes (apparently) the desktop manager To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/1072518/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs