Killing the strace caused the tool to become unresponsive again, so there's probably some horrible heisenbug here. The strace made it responsive enough that I could tick the activation checkbox for the interface, but after that it proceeded to show the erroneous behavior observed on other systems and described in bug#148606
-- network tool goes into busy loop trying to read nonexistent /root/.gnome2/network-admin-locations file on IBM xSeries 255 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148614 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
