Upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10: Waiting for network config at boot

"I get my bootloader and the Ubuntu splash screen. It appears to be working, then it displays "Waiting for network configuration...". That message stays up for less than a minute and then it is replaced by "Waiting up to 60 more seconds for network configuration...". That message is up for less than a minute and the screen goes black."


Basically in 11.10 /var/run and /var/lock were moved to /run, and there needs to be symbolic links created to point the old to the new, eg:

cd /var
sudo rm -rf run lock
sudo ln -s /run run
sudo ln -s /run/lock lock
(reboot)