Thursday, December 4, 2008

Ubuntu upgrade broke network manager.

My amd 64 network manager broke after today's upgrade. Followed below link to solve the problem

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279433

Steps:
1. Downloaded: network-manager_0.7~~svn20080928t225540+eni0-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb

from link: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/amd64/network-manager/0.7~~svn20080928t225540+eni0-0ubuntu2

2. Moved existing network-manager deb from /var/cache/apt/archives/ to the desktop

mv /var/cache/apt/archives/network-manager-pptp_0.7~~svn20081015t024626-0ubuntu1.8.10.1_amd64.deb ~/Desktop

3. Copied "network-manager_0.7~~svn20080928t225540+eni0-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb" to /var/cache/apt/archives folder.

4. Restarted the box. Networking started working!!

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