On 2012-05-20 18:07 +0200, Ramon Hofer wrote: > After upgrading the packages in Wheezy amd64 I can't connect to the > network anymore. This is on my htpc where I only have xbmc running. So no > gnome, kde, etc. > Every other computer in the network has no problems. > > I can't even ping localhost. It says "connect: Network is unreachable". > What I can do is assign a network address manually. But this doesn't help. > > When I try ifdown eth0 it tells me that the command is not found. In the > apt history.log (which you can find below) one can find "Remove: > ifupdown:amd64 (0.7~alpha5+really0.6.16)" which for me seems to be the > cause of the problem.
The lesson to be learned from this is to always watch out for important packages that are to be removed when dist-upgrading, and to bail out if necessary. > I now downloaded the package from my laptop, copied it to a usb stick and > installed it with dpkg -i. > > But the problem is when I do a dist-upgrade it will ignore the ifupdown > package? It would likely remove it again. > Should I now just install the package with apt-get again? Run "apt-get update" first. > And why did this happen? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=672851 Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
