Just a quick bit of info as I saw a similar problem...which may or may not have been related on 9.10.
The problem as I see it was caused by have a static ip setup on eth0 - but the network manager was 'swiping' the connection and attempting dhcp (which is not available on the particular network). I found that the following changes to my /etc/network/interfaces cured problems.
1. On lines following iface use a tab to indent not spaces.
2. Between keywords and data (i.e. netmask 255.255.0.0) use a single space not multiple spaces.
Just a quick bit of info as I saw a similar problem...which may or may not have been related on 9.10.
The problem as I see it was caused by have a static ip setup on eth0 - but the network manager was 'swiping' the connection and attempting dhcp (which is not available on the particular network). I found that the following changes to my /etc/network/ interfaces cured problems.
1. On lines following iface use a tab to indent not spaces.
2. Between keywords and data (i.e. netmask 255.255.0.0) use a single space not multiple spaces.
After a reboot this cured my problems.