Possible NetworkManager problem, but where to look?

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 06/24/2010 02:41 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Tom Horsley<horsley1953 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:11:12 -0500
>>> Richard Shaw wrote:
>>>
>>>> All networking communications work fine right after boot, but at some
>>>> point all connection attempts TO her computer fail, while all
>>>> networking communications coming FROM her laptop continue to work
>>>> fine.
>>>
>>> That sounds a bit like a DHCP lease being dropped, but I'm not
>>> sure how to check. I know I've seen behavior like this on virtual
>>> machines with totally rotten clocks which keep time so badly they
>>> don't think they have to renew their lease yet even though the
>>> server has already dropped them :-).
>>
>> I'll take a look when I get home, but it seems unlikely. I use the
>> DHCP built into my Netgear FVS318G router and none of the other
>> computers seem to have this problem.
>>
>> Richard
>
> Check the date and time on the machine. It's possible that you have a
> bad CMOS battery and it's losing/resetting time at random.

Hmm.. just checked it remotely:

# date
Thu Jun 24 15:50:52 CDT 2010

Richard