Tuesday 14 September 2010

Enable Network Manager after a failed Resume from Suspend

Occasionally my system will decide it doesn't want to properly resume after a successful suspend. All well and good, I can just reboot my machine. However, there I encounter one problem. NetworkManager applet is disabled. All I see is this:








Then if I click on the networking icon, I just see text that says Networking disabled.

Thankfully, this is a relatively easy fix. Run the following commands:


sudo rm /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state
sudo service network-manager restart

When the service starts up again, that file will be re-created with the property NetworkingEnabled set to true. Of course, you could avoid deleting that file and just modify the property yourself – setting it to true – but I feel it is quicker to just remove the file and restart the service.