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

[Aaron Gray]

On 24 January 2013 02:16, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Okay, on checking today NetworkManager seems to be running and I am not
getting any Network Connection warning box anymore. So I am presuming this
was a temporary glitch, despite having done two resets and changing the
network adapter.

Still stable an hour later :)

Many thanks,

Aaron
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