Knetwork manager fails after Virtual Box install

I have installed Vbox on 2 systems running Opensuse 11.3 and both have experienced knetworkmanager failure.

Knetworkmanager failed after a failed wake up from sleep mod, which also had been working perfectly until this failure. I am wondering if the vbox kernel modules could be causing this isssue.

To temporarily fix the problem I am running my network connections through yast networks setting . (which uses the traditional ifup method and everything is working)

Why not give these two commands a try using a terminal session (Menu / System / Terminal / Konsole):

sudo rm /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state

sudo /etc/init.d/network restart

Enter the root password for each to work. You may need to restart the entire session for this to help.

Thank You,

That is a beautiful solution to the problem!

This is the file before running the commands

[main]
NetworkingEnabled=false
WirelessEnabled=true
WWANEnabled=true

After running the commands everything is set to true, and knetworkmanager works again.

I have used rcnetwork restart in the past does this have the same effect as the second command? If I under the first command properly it simply removes the file so that it can be recreated.

It turns out that knetworkmanager had a bug that caused this issue and there is now a patch to fix it.