Oneiric: lost network connection & desktop

[Bruce Pieterse]

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?

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Best of luck,

Bruce