Fw: NOT HAPPY after Breezy upgrade/install

Wed Apr 5 02:55:50 UTC 2006

I had an issue with manual config in 5.10.
My problem was solved when I used the
System->Networking->Administration menu to
both enable the interface as well as activate it.
And it worked. I didn't both to figure out why the manual
config didn't work contrary to my expectation.

Alfred,

Jay Ridgley wrote:

>  
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jay Ridgley <mailto:jridgley2 at austin.rr.com>
> To: Peter Garrett <mailto:peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>
> Cc: ubuntu-users at ubuntu.com <mailto:ubuntu-users at ubuntu.com>
> 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 at austin.rr.com 
> <mailto:jridgley2 at austin.rr.com>> 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,
> Jay

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