Comment 24 for bug 74454

I can confirm this bug in Xubutnu 8.04 with all the latest updates. If you are using DHCP, network-manager retrieves the configuration for your network from the daemon using the settings in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf. You can see the load functionality in /var/log/daemon.log

daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:29 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) started...
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:29 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:29 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> Old device 'eth0' activating, won't change.
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:29 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started...
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:29 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled...
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:29 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:29 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting...
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:29 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) successful.
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:29 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) scheduled.
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:29 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:29 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) started...
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:30 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Beginning DHCP transaction.
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:30 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) complete.
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:30 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> DHCP daemon state is now 12 (successfully started) for interface eth0
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:32 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> DHCP daemon state is now 1 (starting) for interface eth0
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:33 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> DHCP daemon state is now 2 (bound) for interface eth0
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:33 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP Configure Get) scheduled...
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:33 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP Configure Get) started...
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:33 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> Retrieved the following IP4 configuration from the DHCP daemon:
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:33 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> address 10.2.10.2
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:33 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> netmask 255.255.255.240
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:33 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> broadcast 10.2.10.15
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:33 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> gateway 10.2.10.1
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:33 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> nameserver 207.69.188.185
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:33 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> nameserver 207.69.188.186
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:33 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> nameserver 207.69.188.187
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:33 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> domain name 'earthlink.net'
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:33 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit) scheduled...
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:33 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP Configure Get) complete.
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:33 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit) started...
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:34 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> Clearing nscd hosts cache.
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:34 blackbox NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_spawn_process(): nm_spawn_process('/usr/sbin/nscd -i hosts'): could not spawn process. (Failed to execute child process "/usr/sbin/nscd" (No such file or directory))
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:34 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Finish handler scheduled.
daemon.log.0:Jun 19 22:45:34 blackbox NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) successful, device activated.