Solved: Waiting for network configuration – 11.10 upgrade

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Hi friends. After the upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10, you can see a major issue, displaying “waiting for network configuration” and will not boot past the Ubuntu splash screen.After few minutes, it says “waiting an additional 60 seconds for network configuration”. After that it says “Booting system without full network configuration”.

The reason for this issue is the change in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standards(FHS).

The following will work for this issue:

According to the recent change, you need to

1. Create directories /run and /run/lock
2. Move contents of /var/run into /run and /var/lock into /run/lock
3. Delete directories /var/run and /var/lock
4. Create replacement simlinks
5. Reboot your machine

For the newbies,

Goto terminal and type

sudo su

for  Step 1:

mkdir /run

mkdir /run/lock

Step 2:

mv /var/run /run

mv /var/lock /run/lock

Step 3:

rm /var/run

rm /var/lock

If rm shows some errors, then use ‘rm -rf’

Step 4:

ln -s /run /var/run

ln -s /run/lock /var/lock

points mentioned in Step 4 are examples which you can make use of.

There is no need to explain step 5.

Enjoy the day =)