Not a solution but I just wanted to point out something mentioned in the past. All future Mint releases will be based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS until 2016 and instead Mint will focus on their packages making things pretty and solid. This would give you a more time with an install before it becoming stale. Or you could just stay with Ubuntu LTS. If you end up reinstalling don't forget to at least grab all your home data :-) On Nov 28, 2014 9:09 PM, "Jack Chastain" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Jack Chastain <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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? >> >> > Reading man page on it, probably just a little too much to hope for. OK - > Reinstall coming up after maybe a bit more reading and searching. If I can > stand it, I may even wait until Saturday just in case there are other ideas. > > > JC > > JC >> >> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Jack Chastain <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> 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. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College * > Dec 3 - Home Disaster Recovery > Jan 7 - When Will Then Be Now? 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