I recently installed Kubuntu 9.04 from pendrivelinux.com on my flash drive. It worked pretty well on first boot however I was not able to connect to wireless network. Ethernet worked fine. I installed a third party network manager to resolve this problem. I installed wicd. It worked and I was able to connect to wireless network.

Meanwhile I also ran the software updates on the OS.

That's it - I rebooted the OS and now it gets stuck while booting at the message "Configuring Network Interfaces ...". It never comes out of it. I have to press "ctrl+alt+del" to come out of it. after I press this combo, it kills the process and OS boots normally and works perfect also. No problem thenafter. I can connect to my wireless as well as ethernet. I don't know where that message is coming from on boot.

Please help.

Maybe "Network Manager" (Useless piece of s***) is back again since the updates. Uninstall it.
Reconfigure wicd and you should be OK.
Another thing to try: take a good look at your /etc/network/interfaces file. Has something (eg NM) messed it up?

here is how it looks
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

auto eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp

auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp


I am a newbie to Linux - would you please let me know how to uninstall network manager? I tried using KPackageKit - searched for "Network". I could not find anything installed with the name "Network Manager" or similar.

I attempted uninstalling wicd and installing network-manager-kde again. The error persists!

Has anyone else seen this problem?

I removed wicd - and restarted the OS - this time it did not get stuck at "Configuring Network Interfaces" However my old problem occurred again. I was not able to connect to Wireless Network.

I following instructions on the page - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...untu#EasySteps - it was also not helpful.

I again had to install wicd in order to get connected to wireless network. But now again the while booting, laptop gets stuck at "Configuring Network Interfaces..." and I have to press ctrl+alt+del to kill the process.

please help

Come on guys ...! Someone on the earth should know how to get rid of that irritating message!!