[Bug 1316606] Re: "service networking restart" fails

[Stéphane Graber]

Bouncing the network in that way isn't supported and never was. Instead
of this breaking systems in subtle way, we made it fail entirely
starting with 14.04.

The way to bounce the network which is supported is:
 - ifdown <specific interface>
 - update the config
 - ifup <specific interface>

"ifdown -a && ifup -a" should also work on most standard systems but
will quite probably hang on more complex setup that need to be
parallelized.

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Title:
  "service networking restart" fails

Status in “ifupdown” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  root at www:~# service networking restart
  stop: Job failed while stopping
  start: Job is already running: networking

  No other output is being produced. I'm fairly sure this should work.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: ifupdown 0.7.47.2ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue May  6 15:38:13 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-02-22 (1168 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ifupdown
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-21 (15 days ago)

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