Fw: NOT HAPPY after Breezy upgrade/install
- From: "Jay Ridgley" <jridgley2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 20:55:34 -0500
----- Original Message -----
From: Jay Ridgley
To: Peter Garrett
Cc: ubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: NOT HAPPY after Breezy upgrade/install
Peter,
cc: ubuntu-users
Sorry for the direct reply, however, I have limited means to provide information. An * indicates my response,
I appologize for the length and any mispellings.
What would you suggest I try next?
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 20:50:27 -0500
"Jay Ridgley" <jridgley2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Folks,
This is hard for me to say, however, after I did an upgrade from a working 5.04 Ubuntu installation to 5.10. I discovered that networking did not work anymore.
Can you be more specific?
* I have a small network (3 systems + firewall system). Prior to the latest attempt to upgradge, it was working fine.
afterwards I am no longer able to ping from my main workstation to the other systems. If I manually enter:
sudo ifconfig eth0 polar netmask 255.255.255.0 I am able to do so. However I am still unable to get to the outside world ie. "The net" from that system, yet I am able to get there from the other systems I am using. One is a laptop that runs MS Windows ( I want to convert it as well but not yet..). It is the one I am using for this connection! It is connected to my network and is called nomad (see below)
What was/is your network setup?
* All hardwired systems (cat 5) with a hub.
* polar 192.168.x.4 ursa 192.168.x.3 nomad 192.168.x.10 <---- workstations
* mateo 192.168.x.2 <---- firewall, gateway also connects to the "Net" via a 2nd NIC via a dynamic IP cable * connection. It is also my nameserver.
What is thecontents of /etc/network/interfaces ?
* This file contained the wrong IP address for polar, I thought AHA I found it, but after correcting that and all
* all other entries accociated with it, including /etc/networks. I rebooted -- no joy -- had to add the eth0 manually.
* no other changes in behavior have been discovered.
Was your nic recognised?
* Indications are that it is being recognized because when I do an ifconfig -a before doing the ifconfig for eth0 it
* shows everything but the IP address. The loopback interface ( lo) shows up as well. The tulip driver is being
* loaded during boot.
What hardware are you using?
* An Intel box with a 686 processor, scsi disks, tape and CDRW and an IDE CD (added specifically to support
* Ubuntu, but that is another matter). Plus the other necessary HW including the NIC.
"Did not work" in what sense? <-- see above
Could you pingbetween network machines? <-- see above and below
Were you unable to connect to the Internet? <-- see above and below
Are you using cable, dialup, adsl ? Cable
Do you use Samba? <-- NO
NFS? <-- NO
And so on...
* The following commands are what I have been using to get as far as I have. Note x stands for the the third node of
* the quad, it is correct.
* ifconfig <-- shows ONLY lo
* route -n <-- shows nothing bu the header
* ifconfig -a <-- no eth0 IP address but eth0, lo and sit0 show up
* sudo ifconfig eth0 polar netmask 255.255.255.0
* ifconfig -a <--- shows the correct IP address for eth0 all the others are unchanged
* -- NOW I can ping other systems on my network
* route -n <--- shows an entry for eth0
* sudo route add -net 192.168.x.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw mateo
* route -n <-- the added gateway line is added and appears correct
* ping yahoo.com <-- unknown host, I still am able to ping within my network
After several attempts to manually configure it with no success I decided
to do an install.
An install? Do you mean a complete OS reinstall ? <-- Yes
What do you mean exactly?
* I booted from an install disk for 5.10 direct from Canonical. And did a default installation, just like I did
* when I initially brought up 5.04.
The results of that activity were also less than what I
wanted... networking still broke, thunderbird is not there, and some other
minor items are also not right.
As far as I know, Thunderbird is not installed by default in Ubuntu -
Evolution is (although IIRC Thunderbird is on the disc)
I have been using Linux for years and this has been about the most frustrating experience I have had.
That's unfortunate - we might be better able to help with a bit more
detail about your setup and a bit more precision - for instance, do you
have any error messages you can tell us about? ( Alt-F4 in the installer
might tell you what went wrong on the reinstall, for example, or the
install logs in /var/log/installer ? )
* Nothing indicating any errors, so I guess all was OK.
Can I go back to 5.04 from 5.10?
If you mean a direct downgrade, I don't think so - at least not without a
lot of frustrating fiddling about.
At least it was working except for supporting a new HP PSC1610 printer
I purchased. That was the reason for the move to 5.10, it was suggested that perhaps it would be easier
to debug the problem.
My only other alternative is to go back to RedHat 7.3, which was what I was using when I moved to Ubuntu.
Red Hat 7.3 was a great distro - but that was a few years ago...
* It was working just fine for me, except I wanted to get some of the new things like firefox and thunderbird.
* I converted to Ubuntu in January, I liked it! When I bought the printer i could not get it to be recognized
* and the person working with me suggested upgrading to 5.10.
Peter
--
Linux User #343161
Thanks for the hints,
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