Howto restart network-manager to solve "Networking disabled"

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sagirfahmid3

Howto restart network-manager to solve "Networking disabled"

Post by sagirfahmid3 »

So, today I had this random annoying problem when I was browsing the web with Firefox. One minute the internet was fine, the next minute the internet was gone and on top of that the network-manager applet stopped working (even when I restarted the computer, it persisted). The nm-applet was greyed out and it said "Networking disabled". If anyone ever has this problem, I hope this solution will find you well. I looked all over Ubuntu forums (many people had the same problem as me), but the forum's answers didn't work for me.

Thank yous go to Praveen, the dude came up with it: http://www.geekyard.com/os/linux-os/fix ... ntu-10-04/

So basically, you open up the terminal and type in these commands

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service network-manager stop
rm /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state
service network-manager start
The problem was fixed immediately for my case, but you may need to restart the computer.
Last edited by xenopeek on Mon Jan 23, 2012 5:52 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: [SOLVED]Network Manager gone missing!("Networking disabl

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Re: Howto restart network-manager to solve "Networking disab

Post by Terminal(ly)-Ill »

I'm still very new but maybe try this:

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=92488

edit: whoops, wrong thread, sorry for the bump, was meant for another thread. :mrgreen:
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Re: Howto restart network-manager to solve "Networking disab

Post by rdonnelly »

I just RMB networking on the panel near the clock, untick enable, then retick enable and it restarts.
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Re: Howto restart network-manager to solve "Networking disab

Post by sagirfahmid3 »

rdonnelly wrote:I just RMB networking on the panel near the clock, untick enable, then retick enable and it restarts.
That was the first thing I tried. How can I do that if networking is disabled? So...no... :roll:
kallli

Re: Howto restart network-manager to solve "Networking disab

Post by kallli »

So, I'm having the same problem with my wireless internet connection. I pasted the code into the terminal, restarted the computer, and nothing changed. Any suggestions?
sagirfahmid3

Re: Howto restart network-manager to solve "Networking disab

Post by sagirfahmid3 »

Ok, first become admin:
terminal> su
enter password
NOW, type in those commands again and see if it works
kallli

Re: Howto restart network-manager to solve "Networking disab

Post by kallli »

it didn't work - i'm just realizing that the original post may be for a wired network? I'm having trouble with my wireless network - would the code be something completely different?
sagirfahmid3

Re: Howto restart network-manager to solve "Networking disab

Post by sagirfahmid3 »

No, that happened on my lappy on my wi-fi. I don't know about wired problem. I dunno, sorry :|
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Re: Howto restart network-manager to solve "Networking disab

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For me it worked smoothly. All you have to do is to run the commands as root (use sudo in front of every one of the 3 command lines)
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