On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Sean Dague <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/28/2014 08:33 PM, Jack Chastain wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Sean Dague <[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. > > 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.
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