Oneiric: lost network connection & desktop

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Mon Oct 17 21:34:52 UTC 2011


On 17 October 2011 22:12, Bruce Pieterse <octoquadza at gmail.com> 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...

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