Ethernet is not Activated at Boot Time

[Penguin Guy]

When my computer first starts I cannot access any ethernet devices (i.e. ifconfig returns only lo) until I run dhclient or dhclient3.

Here's my /var/log/boot.log:

fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
Ubuntu_10.04: clean, 307104/655360 files, 2042504/2620587 blocks
init: portmap main process (829) terminated with status 2

init: portmap main process ended, respawning

init: statd pre-start process (844) terminated with status 2

 * Starting AppArmor profiles        modem-manager: Loaded plugin MotoC

Skipping profile in /etc/apparmor.d/disable: usr.bin.firefox

Anyone know what could be causing this?

[andrewthomas]

Did you uninstall NetworkManager?

[Penguin Guy]

Did you uninstall NetworkManager?

No, network-manager is installed and up-to-date.

[andrewthomas]

post the output of

cat /var/log/syslog|grep dhclient

[efflandt]

In Network Connections is your Auto eth, or whatever it is, checked to Connect automatically and Available to all users? If the latter is NOT checked, maybe it only connects when a specific user allowed to connect it is logged in, instead of right away for any user(s).

Does it automatically connect when "you" log into X?

[Penguin Guy]

Looks like it's fixed itself. Odd.