[Solved] Network manager restart problem

Crowdit · 2013-12-15 21:45:51

EDIT: I had to disable dhcpcd, now everything works fine.

Hi,

I've been using Arch for couple of months now and my network worked fine. It worked out of the box, no settings were necessary, I'm fairly sure I didn't touch any of the network related files.

So now I've decided to install NetworkManager and it works. The service is running, applet is running, it is listing all the wifi networks nearby and my ethernet connection. Also the internet works, so it's just like before I installed it. But the problem is, if I restart the service (systemctl restart NetworkManager.service), my Internet no longer works. I cannot connect to any website. Browser tells me that the server could not be found. Restarting the computer fixes the problem and everything works just as it should.

It's not necessarily a big problem, I can live with it, but I'd like to figure out what's the problem. I don't know much about networks so I don't really know what information could be relevant. Thanks.

Last edited by Crowdit (2013-12-16 15:46:48)

WonderWoofy · 2013-12-15 22:45:49

You had to have set something up initially to get things going. From the very minimal amount of information you have provided, it sounds like you have a race condition and the NetworkManager.service just happens to get going first and lay claim as the one to control networking.

Crowdit · 2013-12-16 08:51:20

I followed the Begginer's guide on wiki and the only step I did from the network configuration is to enable dhcpcd daemon. Could that be the problem?

Crowdit · 2013-12-16 11:05:10

I did some more experimenting and it's weird. If I stop NetworkManager.service, internet works. It's only after I start it and I get the "You are now connected to so and so" message that internet dies. But it doesn't die fully that's the weird thing. Wikipedia loads without styles and Google search works completely. For anything else the server cannot be found.

WonderWoofy · 2013-12-16 16:04:15

Enabling the dhcpcd.service is setting up your network connection. You can only have one thing controlling your networking at a time. So pick one and go with it.

Also, I'm not sure why you marked the thread as [Solved], since you have posted no actual "solution" to your problem here.

Crowdit · 2013-12-16 20:01:32

I edited the OP. But yeah, disabling dhcpcd solved the issue.

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