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Waiting for network configuration while ubuntu 12.04 startup booting

Asked by abhayr0Abhay Kumar Somani

While Ubuntu 12.04 startup, I am getting a message "Waiting for network congiguration" and then "Waiting up to 60 more seconds for network configuration..." and after that i am getting the normal ubuntu user login screen.
Because of this the Ubuntu is loading much slower. How can i solve this??
Please Help.

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N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said : 		#1

Check out the file /etc/network/interfaces , what are the contents ?

Give here the result of this command

cat /etc/network/interfaces

You can copy-paste above command to your terminal for more accuracy. You can open a terminal by pressing [Ctrl]+[Alt]+t keys combo.

Thanks

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-nettool/+question/175131

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abhayr0Abhay Kumar Somani (abhay-somani2006) said : 		#3

abhay@abhay-HCL-Notebook:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto dsl-provider
iface dsl-provider inet ppp
pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up # line maintained by pppoeconf
provider dsl-provider

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet manual
abhay@abhay-HCL-Notebook:~$

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Best N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said : 		#4

Hi ,

please open the file , with this command

1) gksudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces

and delete all the lines Except these two lines

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

Save the file and reboot.

Thanks

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abhayr0Abhay Kumar Somani (abhay-somani2006) said : 		#5

Thanks Nikth.
The problem is solved.