Re: Oneiric: lost network connection & desktop

On Tue 18 Oct 2011 19:15:57 SAST, Liam Proven wrote:
On 18 October 2011 02:45, Liam Proven<lproven@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 18 October 2011 02:23, Liam Proven<lproven@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 17 October 2011 22:34, Liam Proven<lproven@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 17 October 2011 22:12, Bruce Pieterse<octoquadza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon 17 Oct 2011 19:59:04 SAST, Liam Proven wrote:

Upgraded to 11.10 64-bit last night. (AMD Athlon X2 5200+, 4GB RAM,
nVidia GTX250 graphics, dual onboard NICs.)

Last night, it worked, even after the first reboot or 2.

Today, X loads but nothing else - blank background, responsive generic
X mouse pointer, nothing else.

Dropping to the CLI, I don't have an IP address or Internet connectivity.

During bootup, there is a ~1min pause when it says it's waiting for
network configuration. Nothing happens, it seems. It then says it's
waiting for another minute, then it (I guess) gives up and loads x.org
but the login manager doesn't start.

Any suggestions of where to start troubleshooting?

I'm posting from Win7, which is unaffected and seems fine. It only
took 4 hours to download 1.039GB of fixes and updates to Windows
itself, plus the 5 reboots' worth of app updates. :¬(


Hi Liam,
Can you try and post some information from /var/log/syslog and
~/.xsession-errors?

Thanks! I will. It'll mean quite a few reboots, I fear, but I'll give
it a bash...

Small update:

Tried reinstalling into a spare partition using the LiveCD. Ubiquity
crashed and it failed.

Did another install into the same partition - formatted - from the
Alternate CD. That worked fine and I am now back up and running, and I
must say, it feels significantly quicker, too. I may just junk my old
install and use this one, actually!

Further update:

Looks like it might be this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dbus/+bug/811441

And the fix of linking /run to /var worked. Shame I had to install a
whole new system to fine this out... 8¬)


Liam,

I'm interested to know what the difference between the desktop and the alternative iso is all about, especially in regards to speed. I've been running the new Ubuntu for 2-3 days and have some minor issues with speed.

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Thanks,

Bruce

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