NetworkManager wont start eth0

[JD]

On 09/01/2010 04:15 AM, William John Murray wrote:
>    Hello all,
>         I have a problem with my Network Manager. Its been broken for a
> couple of weeks, not sure when.
>     The computer is static, but I use NM to run the pptp package.
> However, at the moment if I start NM it has the 'enable networking' box
> greyed out and will not start. This might be to do with a bridge network
> used for internal KVM guests - but it was all playing fine a month or
> two ago. If I don't use NM all works fine.
>    I tried deleting the eth0 from system-config-network. I don't like to
> do the same for the Br  as I am not sure how to remake it. But I can try
> if people think I should. It was a bit fiddly making the host machine
> export NFS disks to the guests; I think I needed this for that.
>    Any suggestions?
>     Thanks,
>     Bill
>
>
What a can of worms NM has been.
I disabled that piece of unmentionables
and have had NO problems eve since.