After running a regular Sw-update this morning, and restarting my Lenovo T430-based Ubuntu 14.04, the Network Icon on my Gnome2-panel is all grey and on left-clicking on it, it says: NetworkManager is not running. I tried to start the service manually from a terminal:  sudo service network-manager restart   But this only returned:  stop: Unknown instance: network-manager start/running, process 5174   Needless to say, the network-icon in my gnome-panel remained grey and no internet-connection was established. And then, while trying to kill this process 5174 with:  kill 5174   the terminal returned:  bash: kill: (5174) - No such process   What's going on here ? Any advice how to get online again ?
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While upgrading today, something caused my wireless network manager to disappear. Not even connecting via wired connection.  This error is being shown by files:  **(nm-applet:2716): WARNING **: Could not initialize NMClient /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager: The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files   (nm-applet:2716): nm-applet-WARNING **: Error connecting to ModemManager: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.ModemManager1: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: Cannot launch daemon, file not found or permissions invalid   (nm-applet:2716): nm-applet-WARNING **: Could not find ShellVersion property on org.gnome.Shell after 5 tries   (nm-applet:2716): nm-applet-WARNING **: Failed to register as an agent: (2) The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files    Is there a patch I can download through windows and send through to my ubuntu, or is it a case of having to reload everything? I tried running two versions back but still no internet access.
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What happened  I was working on my laptop while it upgraded from 15.10 to 16.04 (which I admit was a mistake) when suddenly the Unity overlay disappeared and the only thing on screen was the Firefox browser window. I switched to a new terminal, logged in and tried to run sudo service lightdm restart but instead of restarting correctly, the screen started turning on and off repeatedly, which freaked me out, so I physically turned off the PC.  Long story short: I forced a shutdown halfway through the Ubuntu upgrade.  Ever since, any attempts of logging in normally have been met with a solid black screen and the idle whirring of the CPU fan.  What I have tried  I have tried the recovery mode boot up, but no luck (The log does greet "Welcome to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS!"). I tried out each option that seemed useful:   dpkg goes through the packages as advertised, but strangely enough it always locks up on some Braille package until I do Ctrl+C, at which moment it spouts some error messages and then I think throws me into the normal boot. failsafeX results in a similar situation to the normal boot: a black void. fsck says the single partition I have is a-ok. grub seems to get a bunch of stuff. Don't know if it searches locally or fetches from the internet. network didn't work I think.   I tried following  but couldn't do the sudo part because the filesystem was mounted as readonly. So I ran fsck which mounts as RW and tried again.   This time, after running apt-get autoremove it went through many packages (Setting up foobar (X.Y.ZubuntuN) ...), sometimes installing packages, which I assume is the usual behavior. One thing to note though is it kept getting stuck several times, so I had to Ctrl+C it out of processing the current package. It finally ended on "Processing was halted because there were too many errors.".  While  seems to mention some of the graphics problems I've been experiencing... I have Intel HD Graphics, not Nvidia. I'll keep looking into it.
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After playing around with the i3 tiling window manager, I had my fill and decided to uninstall it and continue using gnome. However, to my dismay, something in i3 overrode the default gnome alert box. For example, when connecting to wifi, I get a gray or blue box instead of the nice ubuntu popups. The screenshot says it all. Any ideas?    (See top right corner)
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I run Ubuntu 12.04 on an old iMac G3. Since the GUI is too resource heavy I have disabled the display manager (lightdm) and am currently running the computer in console mode. How do I establish a mobile broadband connection from the command line?  When I connect the modem it shows up as ttyUSB0 in the Network Manager device list:  $ nmcli dev DEVICE     TYPE              STATE         ttyUSB0    gsm               disconnected     eth0       802-3-ethernet    unavailable   I have also copied a working connection configuration file from another computer to /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/Com\ Hem\ Default\ 1. Still, when I try to connect I get an "unknown connection" error:  $ nmcli con up id "Com Hem Default 1" Error: Unknown connection: Com Hem Default 1.   Any clues?
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Since the network manager is troubling me so much I want to replace it (possibly wicd orNM from ppa:volanin).  I do not know how to connect and disconnect to the network through the terminal without using network manager.  I would like a command-line way of managing the network.
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I've added the following line into  my startup applications:  /usr/bin/syndaemon -i 0.5 -d -K   but syndaemon is never running when I log in. I always have to execute the command manually from the terminal, at which point it works normally. My other startup applications work fine. This issue occurs in both gnome and unity.  I'm using ubuntu 14.10 (issue occurred in 14.04 as well). I doubt my hardware matters, but I'm on a lenovo yoga 2 pro.  Ideas?
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I've upgraded to Raring last night. The upgrade itself went okay, no errors. But when I rebooted the computer afterwards and logged in to my Unity session, all I could see was the Desktop background (together with Desktop icons), and no Unity interface. The Super button shortcut wasn't showing the Dash, there was no top panel etc. Please see the screenshot.    As a hint, I'm suspecting it's got something to do with my switchable graphics. I'm running Ubuntu on Acer Aspire AS5830TG with nVidia GT540M and an Intel integrated card. In 12.10 I was using Bumblebee to manage the graphic card switching. During the upgrade I saw something related to nvidia had to be uninstalled, but didn't pay much attention to it. I can't be sure if it has anything to do with my problem though.  What could possibly go wrong?
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I'm experiencing this behaviour on 2 separated machines (in a virtualbox vm and physically installed on another laptop):  Sometimes after I start the Files Gnome application - its corresponding button disappears from the Unity Launcher couple seconds after it's started. So if I minimize the application - I have no chance to close the application rather than killing its process with kill.  That's how it looks like:    Has anyone else experienced it? Is it a bug or some tricky configuration option?  If it's a bug - where should I report it?  PS: I've filed a bug for that
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I am using Ubuntu 16.10 and recently I have not been able to connect to internet using Ethernet. The network manager shows device not managed. The WiFi network is working fine.      I've tried the solution from this questionn  with no use.  My /etc/network/interfaces file:  # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8) auto lo iface lo inet loopback   My /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf file:  [main] plugins=ifupdown,keyfile,ofono dns=dnsmasq  [ifupdown] managed=true   Output of nmcli d:  DEVICE  TYPE      STATE      CONNECTION  wlp2s0  wifi      connected  eduroam     enp8s0  ethernet  unmanaged  --          lo      loopback  unmanaged  --
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I updated a virtual machine running Ubuntu server 15.04 to the just released new stable 15.10.  There were no apparent problems, but after reboot the machine lost its network connection. lspci showed the correct card and lsmod proved that the driver had been loaded.  Hints about editing or removing /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules did not succeed (still no network, no new file), the famous /lib/udev/write_net_rules did not even exist.  I don't have much clue regarding udev and systemd, so it took me some time to find in /sys/class/net that the network interface name changed. It became ens32, which was renamed from eth0. After I changed /etc/network/interfaces network communication was enabled again.  But - why does this happen at all? And if it happens, shouldn't the interfaces file be updated automatically?  Now that I deleted the virtual network card and created another one, eth0 becomes eno16777728, which is not so, uhm, nice.  Should this behaviour (at least that of the upgrade procedure) be reported as a bug?  Furthermore, is /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules obsolete now? And (although only partly related) what about /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules?)  Edit - additional question (after accepted answer) The dependency of /etc/network/interfaces from the actual interface name bothered me. I tried a new installation of *ubuntu in another virtual machine. To my surprise, /etc/network/interfaces contained a reference to the loopback device only. However, with my original VM this change prevented the network to come up. So what else do I need to change?  Edit Well, from another test I found that a new Ubuntu Server has the network interface card in /etc/network/interfaces, while XUbuntu has not. Maybe it is using network-manager or something else.
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The network interface should not make a request for an IP over DHCP. So, what is the command to turn off NetworkManager in Ubuntu?   Update:  I am writing a script in which the interfaces receive static IPs. For this to happen I need to put a line in the script which will turn off NetworkManager. But when I'm not using that script I want to have DHCP on the interfaces.
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Other posts seems to be addressing more complicated network connection issues from the command line.  The Unity panel Network indicator/button doesn't respond too well sometimes - it keeps trying to connect to a network even when i click on "disconnect", stuff like that.  So I want to go command line for the control.  I don't like GUIs anyway.  Is there not some simple command line tool which can do something like the following?  wifi connect MyNetworkNameA wifi disconnect wifi connect MyNetworkNameB
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This may seem like a duplicate, but many solutions have been unsuccessfully tried. Currently I have no internet, WIFI or Ethernet. Sometimes: "no wifi adapter found".  The device is HP dm4, dual boot with Windows 7.    Here is the  The issue started 3 weeks ago as no GUI after 16.04 LTS to 18.04.01 upgrade.  At that time, I was able to use the terminal to connect to the Internet and run "fixes" in   Then mysteriously, the GUI ran after restarting several times.  But since then, I am unable to connect to the Internet in the terminal or GUI.    There is a chatroom  about my issues.  sudo nmcli c up &lt;saved WIFI connection&gt;   only appears to connect.   sudo nmcli d wifi list   shows strong signal strength, but ping to google and nyt fails.   The phone I use as a hotspot shows a successful connection.    In the GUI Network Tools show the phone/hotspot recently used minutes ago, the Available Networks list shows the phone/hotspot as available with a check mark, but the "connect" button is grayed out and unfunctional.    REGDOMAIN=00 and attempts to change this has failed as others describe. I have a similar set up to the one described by cipricus in  and the situation described in
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When I started my laptop, there was no network service, and also no network icon in the top bar. It gives an error when I start OS like "Sorry, Ubuntu 14.04 experienced an internal error". When I click details, it says the error is occurred in the executable path usr/sbin/NetworkManager. Also, when I try to enter Network in the System Settings, it says "the system network services are not compatible with this version"  How can I solve this shocking issue?  p.s. I didn't install any third party packages/apps related with networking. Only system updates are installed.
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I'm using Ubuntu 17.10 with GNOME shell and Numix-Circle icon theme.   When I hover over the Numix icon for Nightly Web Browser, which is pinned to the dock I get the title "Nightly Web Browser".      But when I launch the program, another icon pops up at the bottom, with the name "Nightly".
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I tried to post to this thread  for if I understand their question I am having the same problem, but the answer option won't work for.  After suspend, the wireless is disconnected and the only way to get it to reinitialize/be recognized is to do a full restart.  At first I thought it was my gnome-shell (for lock screen disappeared there with 13.10), but when I switched to the default Ubuntu it's still doing it and it's kinda driving me nuts for I have to reopen all my files and browsers/tabs/windows every time. I don't know how to show the terminal stuff the above asker shows, but it sounds like the same issue and it only started with 13.10 upgrade a few days ago.   Any help would be much appreciated!!! -- Thanks so much, ser.
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I just upgraded my System to 14.04.  After restarting when the update was finished I did not see any menu bars or panels.   Right clicking and opening a terminal via ctrl+alt+t is not possible. However I can access the terminal via alt+F1. I already tried out installing the unity-desktop again but it didn't change anything .  Do you have any suggestions?