On Tue 11 Apr 2017 at 13:12:58 (-0500), Martin McCormick wrote: > After using apt-get autoremove on a jessie installation, > the system is mostly working but it now fails to initialize eth0 > so it comes up with no network address. I looked back through the > 8 syslog files it had and, of course, there doesn't happen to be > a syslog taken of a boot or I might be able to see what happened > when avahi-daemon got the IP address for eth0. > > For now, I manually setup eth0 by using ifconfig so it > presently has an IP address and seems to otherwise be working but > I am not sure what got removed that shouldn't have been. [...] > > Tat's probably where something got zapped that shouldn't have. > > This system configures it's interface via dhcp and that is what is > now not happening. > > ifconfig -a shows eth0 all right but it is not set to > anything until I manually configure it. /etc/network/interfaces > is okay. There are no huge squawks in the syslog on bootup but > sftpd isn't starting, probably because there is no interface to > listen on. After setting eth0, vsftpd started. > > Any constructive suggestions are greatly appreciated as to what > to look for that should be there but is not.
/var/log/apt/history.log should contain something like Start-Date: 2017-03-02 06:48:56 Commandline: apt-get autoremove followed by the packages removed. If, during the removal, some service was stopped, or whatever, you might see some output somewhat buried in /var/log/apt/term.log at the corresponding time. Cheers, David.
