Oneiric: lost network connection & desktop

[Liam Proven]

On 18 October 2011 02:45, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 October 2011 02:23, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 17 October 2011 22:34, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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...
>>
>> 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¬)

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