A thought struck me after I sent my last reply - can I boot the DVD (LiveCD mode) and then mount my original partition and run "sudo apt-get update" on that? Or even the fix that was mentioned? Is that too much a Solaris thing to work on Linux?
JC On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Jack Chastain <jack.chast...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Sean Dague <s...@dague.net> wrote: > >> On 11/28/2014 08:33 PM, Jack Chastain wrote: >> >> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Sean Dague <s...@dague.net> wrote: >> >>> On 11/28/2014 08:03 PM, Jack Chastain wrote: >>> >>> It was "whatever the system wanted" - based on upgrade notices normally >>> given... so not something I did "intentionally" - just the flow of things. >>> I only know that it is not stating 14.04 LTE (note - I don't see 14.04.1 - >>> though that is what I am downloading to DVD at the moment.) >>> >>> ifconfig looks ... short to me - but I don't look at it often enough >>> to know on the laptop. If I am reading it correctly, only "lo" is showing >>> up.Loopback isn't going to do me any good (not at all sure why no wireless >>> either but I suspect it is related). >>> >>> ifconfig -a (the -a is important) as that will display all interfaces >>> known to the system even if they don't have addresses, which yours don't. >>> >>> >> Yep - that's a habit I have - and when NOT on DVD, it only has lo >> (booted on LiveCD - much more normal, though no address on eth0) >> >> >> >>> I also don't know what a Logitech Unity is, so I'm not sure what kind >>> of device is expected there. >>> >>> >> On LIveCD it "just works" - even the keyboard! Yay! Maybe I don't need >> Solaar anymore! >> >> >>> >>> No clue if that is imporatant. >>> >>> Should I try to drop you the entire dmesg? >>> >>> [add: I just ran "dmesg | grep -i net" - see this mongst a few other >>> things: "audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)"] >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> What you are looking for is reference for your network adapters >>> initializing for instance: >>> >>> [ 8.991276] e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow >>> Control: Rx/Tx >>> (from my desktop) >>> >>> or >>> >>> [496871.229602] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: L1 Enabled; Disabling L0S >>> [496871.236602] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x2-0x0 >>> [500301.873312] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: no hotplug settings from platform >>> [501462.791896] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: no hotplug settings from platform >>> (from my laptop) >>> >>> >> Yeah - absolutely nothing like this when on normal boot. No eth >> anything (I grepped before) >> >> >> >>> The other thing to figure out is figure out if some config file wanted >>> to be updated during upgrade and didn't get: >>> >>> sudo find /etc | grep dpkg-dist >>> >>> >> nothing returns. I dropped off the "-dist" and get some results, so I >> am presuming the answer to this is "there aren't any". >> >> >> >>> That will be the etc files which there was a new distro config file, >>> but either you or the system decided not to apply it. That can be the cause >>> for configuration issues like this as well. >>> >>> But, that being said, there is a lot of shooting in the dark here. >>> >>> >> Totally understand and appreciate the attempts. Original question >> stands - is it possible to do a "recovery" from the DVD I now have, or am I >> just going to commit to a rebuild? I can do that - probably easier - I >> backed up my entire home dir before, so no loss anticipated (though I have >> to reload all the "stuff". Too clueless to use all the nice reconstruction >> things ;-) >> >> There is not really such a thing as a recovery mode, because what that >> would be is trying to clear out a bunch of common state and reboot, most of >> which would be in /etc. >> >> > Well - I expected that, but was kind of hoping... > > > >> Did you try removing the persistence rules file with a restart? That's >> the most common state wedge for something like "my adapter didn't show up". >> >> > Did nothing (that I was aware of?) with rules. Are we talking about > /etc/udev? (Only got that from Google - keep in mind - I am pretty minimal > in Linux!) I'm looking at search results for that now - nothing good yet. > > I will probably just go for a re-install, given that everything works fine > with the DVD in. > > > >> The other "in the future" tool to install and use is 'etckeeper', which >> keeps all of /etc in a git repo, so you can see all changes that package >> upgrades do, which helps on a debug like this. >> >> > I will do that first :) > > >> -Sean >> >> > > JC > >> > -- > Google Voice: (914) 468-4552 > ---------------------------------------- > Prov. 12:15 > > Eschew obfuscation and pompous prolixity. > > Light a man a fire, he is warm for the night. > Light a man afire, he is warm for the rest of his life. > -- Google Voice: (914) 468-4552 ---------------------------------------- Prov. 12:15 Eschew obfuscation and pompous prolixity. Light a man a fire, he is warm for the night. Light a man afire, he is warm for the rest of his life.
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