Comment 30 for bug 497299

Here are my observations,

Downgrading does NOT solve my problem.

I DO have a /etc/network/interfaces file:
  cat /etc/network/interfaces
  auto lo
  iface lo inet loopback

My install was directly 9.10 (no upgrade) 64 bit.

uname -a : Linux <name> 2.6.31-17-generic #54-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 10 17:01:44 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

service --status-all only shows "ntp" and "pulseaudio" as started (ntp is strange because it should also rely on network)

This bug is also serious because it prevents ordinary users from printing.

Please let me know how I can help debug this (f.inst by adding debug output lines to some files, but which?).

Michael