Ok, so out of pure frustration, I went and re-installed both machines. I did them side by side, so I knew I typed exactly the same thing on both machines. I then ran my setup script post-install to finish configuring them.
Not sure why, but now both machines behave exactly as I expect. The only thing I did notice when re-installing them, was that I had partitioned their disks differently the last time (one was guided lvm, the other was manually partitioned). I may have also know I set noatime and possibly nodev on a few of the mounts when I did it manually, but not sure why that would have caused the problems I encountered. Honestly, I did the same exact re-install as I just did a few days ago, the only thing I did differently was I left the manually partitioned disks last time, and added noatime to the mounts. That is the only thing I did differently this time. I'm pretty sure I only set noatime on most of the mounts, but I may have thrown nodev on like /tmp and /home. Could something like that have caused the bridges to not come up? Now I kind of wish I saved the /etc from before when it didn't work so I could do a post-mortem. Anyway, I apologize for wasting everyone's time, and I'd like to thank everyone who responded. I appreciate the community behind ubuntu! Doug -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
