Network service is not running.

[satyaveerarya]

Hello Friends,

I use fedora 14 and when I'm trying to run the network service on my system it gives me the following error -

# service network restart
Shutting down interface eth0: Error: Device 'eth0' (/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0) disconnecting failed: This device is not active
[FAILED]
Shutting down loopback interface: Error: Device 'lo' not found.
[FAILED]
Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface eth0: Error: Connection activation failed: Device not managed by NetworkManager or unavailable
[FAILED]
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and whenever I try to activate the device in graphical mode again it shows the above same error.

Please help me to solve this problem. I will be very thankful to you guys.......

[hefeweizen]

F14 uses NetworkManager by default. So unless you've switched try 'service networkmanager stop'

[satyaveerarya]

hefeweizen, you mean to say that first I have to stop the service by executing 'service networkmanager stop' and then restart the service again.??? Is that what you mean?

[hefeweizen]

No, you only have to stop one service. However, the service you need to stop isn't 'network', it's 'NetworkManager'.

You described this:

[root@example ~]# service network stop
Shutting down interface eth0:  Error: Device 'eth0' (/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0) disconnecting failed: This device is not active
                                                           [FAILED]
Shutting down loopback interface:  Error: Device 'lo' not found.
                                                           [FAILED]

This is what's required:

[root@example ~]# service NetworkManager stop
Stopping NetworkManager daemon:                            [  OK  ]

The 'network' service is legacy and F14 has been updated to use 'NetworkManager'.

[satyaveerarya]

Ok, now I got it. I tried the same and working fine now..

Thanks a lot, thank you very much for helping me...

[marko]

Remember, just running "service XYZ stop" or "service XYZ start" is only temporarily going to change service XYZ for that boot up, to do that permanently you'll need to use chkconfig:

chkconfig network off
chkconfig NetworkManager on

or use system-config-services (use the Enable/Disable buttons to do the reboot start/stop and the Start/Stop buttons for the service start/stop)

[satyaveerarya]

yeah marko I know that I did the same as you described above. Thanks a lot for helping me friends...

[ILMostro]

Thank you Marko! I have been wondering for weeks why I kept getting a "failed" state on network.service, not realizing that I could just disable it and be fine with "NetworkManager.service" alone.

btw: I realize this is an old thread, but I felt overjoyed with the information here that I just had to share it, and to thank you. I love Fedora