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I installed some updates and after a restart the network manager thing in the taskbar said NetworkManager wasnt running so i tried to run it in terminal and it said i didnt have permission so i ran it with sudo and it worked. How do I get it to automatically start?

(I also posted this here: https://piefed.social/c/linux4noobs@programming.dev/p/2244265/networkmanager-doesn-t-run-on-startup)

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[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

sudo systemctl start NetworkManager

And then so it starts when you boot in, we finally enable:

sudo systemctl enable NetworkManager

also from the top of my head - you can combine the two by adding a flag

sudo systemctl enable --now NetworkManager

That will enable and start it.


Also make sure no conflicting network service is running. Common culprits are dhcpcd, netctl, and systemd-networkd. If they're active, NM might not start and you might stop and disable them before starting NM. Not sure if that would apply to kubuntu or your particular setup, but I wanted to mention it just in case.