F18: FYI "Connection Failed" message box appearing but Ethernet okay.

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 01:22 +0000, Aaron Gray wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed F18 yesterday and did updates and everything seemed fine.
> 
> Today I am getting a black message box at the bottom of the Gnome Window
> saying "Connection Failed: "
> 
> ifconfig says everything is okay and I have successfully done a 20 Gig
> rsync.
> 
> Aaron
> Hi,
>  
> I installed F18 yesterday and did updates and everything seemed fine.
>  
> Today I am getting a black message box at the bottom of the Gnome
> Window saying "Connection Failed: "
>  
> ifconfig says everything is okay and I have successfully done a 20 Gig
> rsync.

Is NetworkManager running? Is it configured to manage your network
interface? If it's running but not configured, Gnome apps will think
you're disconnected even when there's no problem.

poc