On 11/28/2014 08:33 PM, Jack Chastain wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Sean Dague <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> 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.
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".
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.
-Sean
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