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[Wm Baum <1301015@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Server admins have been restarting networking with init scripts for many
years, and for me personally it was rather disturbing to find this no
longer works -- as well as to read some of the comments here.
Networking that cannot be reliably restarted in the same manner it's
brought up at boot time is a major problem.  Luckily the init scripts
from 13.10 actually still work, so this is my current workaround.

I'm not really sure what someone might do with networking that cannot be
manipulated with ifconfig and other lower level commands, and therefore
properly managed with init/upstart, but whatever warnings need to be
applied, perhaps should be applied to whatever that is.  And the fact
that some networking devices/configs may not be reliably
reloaded/restarted should not restrict the functionality of those that
can.

In these various comments I've not heard a compelling reason one
shouldn't be able to edit /etc/network/interfaces and restart/reload
networking.

Ubuntu Server has been my distro of choice for several years for colo
servers, vps's, vm's, etc..  Perhaps it's time to look at a different
server distro..

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Title:
  Networking does not restart

Status in “ifupdown” package in Ubuntu:
  Opinion

Bug description:
  In Ubuntu Server 14.04 it appears it is not possible to restart
  networking. This is fresh install from ISO.

  wirehive@ubuntu:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
  wirehive@ubuntu:~$ echo $?
  1
  wirehive@ubuntu:~$ sudo service networking restart
  stop: Job failed while stopping
  start: Job is already running: networking
  wirehive@ubuntu:~$ sudo bash -x /etc/init.d/networking restart
  + PATH=/sbin:/bin
  + RUN_DIR=/run/network
  + IFSTATE=/run/network/ifstate
  + STATEDIR=/run/network/state
  + '[' -x /sbin/ifup ']'
  + '[' -x /sbin/ifdown ']'
  + . /lib/lsb/init-functions
  +++ run-parts --lsbsysinit --list /lib/lsb/init-functions.d
  ++ for hook in '$(run-parts --lsbsysinit --list /lib/lsb/init-functions.d 2>/dev/null)'
  ++ '[' -r /lib/lsb/init-functions.d/20-left-info-blocks ']'
  ++ . /lib/lsb/init-functions.d/20-left-info-blocks
  ++ for hook in '$(run-parts --lsbsysinit --list /lib/lsb/init-functions.d 2>/dev/null)'
  ++ '[' -r /lib/lsb/init-functions.d/50-ubuntu-logging ']'
  ++ . /lib/lsb/init-functions.d/50-ubuntu-logging
  +++ LOG_DAEMON_MSG=
  ++ FANCYTTY=
  ++ '[' -e /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh ']'
  ++ true
  + CONFIGURE_INTERFACES=yes
  + EXCLUDE_INTERFACES=
  + VERBOSE=no
  + '[' -f /etc/default/networking ']'
  + verbose=
  + '[' no = yes ']'
  + case "$1" in
  + init_is_upstart
  + '[' -x /sbin/initctl ']'
  + /bin/grep -q upstart
  + /sbin/initctl version
  + return 0
  + exit 1
  wirehive@ubuntu:~$ sudo bash -x service networking restart
  ++ basename service
  + VERSION='service ver. 0.91-ubuntu1'
  ++ basename service
  + USAGE='Usage: service < option > | --status-all | [ service_name [ command | --full-restart ] ]'
  + SERVICE=
  + ACTION=
  + SERVICEDIR=/etc/init.d
  + OPTIONS=
  + '[' 2 -eq 0 ']'
  + cd /
  + '[' 2 -gt 0 ']'
  + case "${1}" in
  + '[' -z '' -a 2 -eq 1 -a networking = --status-all ']'
  + '[' 2 -eq 2 -a restart = --full-restart ']'
  + '[' -z '' ']'
  + SERVICE=networking
  + shift
  + '[' 1 -gt 0 ']'
  + case "${1}" in
  + '[' -z networking -a 1 -eq 1 -a restart = --status-all ']'
  + '[' 1 -eq 2 -a '' = --full-restart ']'
  + '[' -z networking ']'
  + '[' -z '' ']'
  + ACTION=restart
  + shift
  + '[' 0 -gt 0 ']'
  + '[' -r /etc/init/networking.conf ']'
  + which initctl
  + grep -q upstart
  + initctl version
  + case "${ACTION}" in
  + stop networking
  stop: Job failed while stopping
  + :
  + exec start networking
  start: Job is already running: networking
  wirehive@ubuntu:~$

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