** Description changed: - The unity UI and windows decorations dissappear when I do one of the - following: + =========== WARNING =============== + + Doing: sudo restart networking or sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart. - This renders me unable to focus any of the open windows with - mouse/keyboard, leaving the system unusable. I have to drop to terminal - (CTRL-ALT-F2) and do a sudo reboot. + ============ WILL TEAR DOWN MOST OF YOUR DESKTOP ============= - I am not sure what parts of the desktop are going down, so I posted this - bug under ubuntu-desktop. I'd be happy to follow up with more - information as needed. + Networking is a generic job which brings up all networking interfaces in + the right order at boot. - ProblemType: Bug - DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 - Package: ubuntu-desktop 1.287 - ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5 - Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64 - ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6 - Architecture: amd64 - Date: Mon Oct 29 09:45:12 2012 - EcryptfsInUse: Yes - InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-20 (8 days ago) - InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5) - MarkForUpload: True - ProcEnviron: - TERM=xterm - PATH=(custom, no user) - XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> - LANG=en_US.UTF-8 - SHELL=/bin/bash - SourcePackage: ubuntu-meta - UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) + It should never be stopped nor restarted. + + It is only stop at shutdown to correctly bring down all the networking + interfaces in the right order again. + + =========== DO NOT RESTART NETWORKING =============== + + + If you want to reconfigure all networking interface you can use something like: + + ifdown eth0 + ifup eth0
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