upgrading to 22.04 kills all access to internet

[Bob]

maybe I should make subject line more accurate.

Bob



On Sun, 16 Apr 2023, Bob wrote:

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> have been doing it with ethernet cable
>
> apt-get (of anything) returns an unable to connect
>
> only thing is when watching the progress of update when loading it loaded 
> firefox but came back with
> "waiting for firefox snapd to autorestart"
> after some time it gave a
> "check path"
> and then went on to finish updating (from 20.04-22.04)
>
>
> have no idea "what path" and where to find it to do what with it???
>
> all solutions seem to require access to internet and it won't connect via 
> anything natively loaded.  if I could download something on this computer and 
> burn a disk then load it????  but don't know what to look for snap is 
> something new to me.
>
> Bob
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> On Sun, 16 Apr 2023, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 10:45 AM Bob <accessys at smart.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> been using Kubuntu for many years and decided to upgrade from 20.04 to
>>> 22.04 and got a new blank hard drive downloaded (on different computer) a
>>> live DVD and started the install, everything went as expected until I
>>> rebooted at the end and firefox was missing. in fact any access to the
>>> internet was missing.
>>>     have heard "things" about "snap" but my first experience with it that 
>>> I
>>> know of.   but have a fully functional, 22.04LTS on my new hard drive with
>>> no access to the internet via any means.  anyone got a workaround.  tried
>>> to download it to the harddrive from the web via the live DVD but it
>>> wouldn't write to the hard drive, and when I finally did get it written a
>>> reboot failed to load it.   (tried midori with same results)
>>> 
>>> hard to download something from web if one cannot access the web
>>> 
>>> ????
>> 
>> Use a USB to ethernet adapter for the initial network setup. You will
>> likely be able to update and upgrade.
>> 
>> If your network does not come up with an update and upgrade, then
>> switch to the hwe kernel. That's the latest supported kernel for
>> Ubuntu. It will be something like 6.1 or 6.2. It may have support for
>> your hardware.
>> 
>> You can install the hwe kernel with:
>>
>>    # apt-get install linux-generic-hwe-22.04
>> 
>> Jeff
>> 
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