Basically my way around it was to disable network manager (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NetworkManager - scroll down to disabling network manager). Then I followed these instructions (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBonding)
I had attempted this previously without disabling network manager and would get to a point where I needed the network to be enabled during boot before login, which was not happening when using the combination of ifneslave with networkmanager. Basically as far as I could tell, they were fighting over who was managing networking. This was causing all kinds of login/home directory mounting issues. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1178505 Title: NetworkManager reverts all bond modes to balanced-rr Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Description: Ubuntu 13.04 Release: 13.04 network-manager: Installed: 0.9.8.0-0ubuntu6 Candidate: 0.9.8.0-0ubuntu6 Version table: *** 0.9.8.0-0ubuntu6 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status I am attempting to use the new bonding interface in NetworkManager in 13.04. NetworkManager will not write any other mode than "Round- robin" to the configuration file. For example I can choose "Active Backup" when editing the bond, save and close the NetworkManager. When I open it again, the mode is once again set to "Round-robin" and not my previously checked "Active Backup" when I closed NetworkManager. Also if I edit "/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/Bond\ Connection\ 1" by hand to have any other mode, NetworkManager resets the value on open of the application. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: network-manager 0.9.8.0-0ubuntu6 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.30-generic 3.8.8 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 CRDA: Error: command ['iw', 'reg', 'get'] failed with exit code 1: nl80211 not found. Date: Thu May 9 18:53:36 2013 IfupdownConfig: auto lo iface lo inet loopback InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-02 (219 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120823.1) IpRoute: default via ###.###.###.### dev bond0 proto static ###.###.###.###/24 dev bond0 proto kernel scope link src ###.###.###.### metric 5 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000 MarkForUpload: True NetDevice.bonding_masters: Error: command ['udevadm', 'info', '--query=all', '--path', '/sys/class/net/bonding_masters'] failed with exit code 2: device path not found X: INTERFACE_MAC=Error: command ['cat', '/sys/class/net/bonding_masters/address'] failed with exit code 1: cat: /sys/class/net/bonding_masters/address: Not a directory NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true WimaxEnabled=true RfKill: SourcePackage: network-manager UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-05-09 (0 days ago) nmcli-con: NAME UUID TYPE TIMESTAMP TIMESTAMP-REAL AUTOCONNECT READONLY DBUS-PATH bond0 slave 2 9fb3fe4a-b24f-4a97-84d6-b72bf7c3d8e3 802-3-ethernet 1368150838 Thu 09 May 2013 06:53:58 PM PDT yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/2 MSFF 6e10a816-5b2a-4e88-93c5-bf70483fe6a5 vpn 1360882873 Thu 14 Feb 2013 03:01:13 PM PST no no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/1 Bond connection 1 57d726f0-663a-40f5-86da-96befb80dd77 bond 1368150838 Thu 09 May 2013 06:53:58 PM PDT yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/0 bond0 slave 1 55b7fab4-00bd-4468-bcbf-123cfd12bcc8 802-3-ethernet 1368150838 Thu 09 May 2013 06:53:58 PM PDT yes no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/3 nmcli-dev: DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH eth1 802-3-ethernet connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/2 bond0 bond connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1 eth0 802-3-ethernet connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0 nmcli-nm: RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN running 0.9.8.0 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled disabled To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1178505/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
