12.04.2 LTS, new install, network broken
Tom H
tomh0665 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 9 16:43:48 UTC 2013
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Dave Woyciesjes
<woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 07/09/2013 12:14 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Avi Greenbury <lists at avi.co> wrote:
>>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The question is, can NM and resolvconf be excised without excising the
>>>> rest
>>>> of the system? TBD. In any event their initiation scripts can be nuked
>>>> if
>>>> found.
>>>
>>> You should be fine:
>>>
>>> avi at fantastic:~$ apt-get --simulate remove network-manager
>>> resolvconf
>>> NOTE: This is only a simulation!
>>> apt-get needs root privileges for real execution.
>>> Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,
>>> so don't depend on the relevance to the real current
>>> situation!
>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>> Building dependency tree
>>> Reading state information... Done
>>> The following packages were automatically installed and are no
>>> longer required:
>>> libllvm3.1:i386 linux-headers-3.8.0-18
>>> linux-headers-3.8.0-18-generic linux-image-3.8.0-18-generic
>>> linux-image-extra-3.8.0-18-generic
>>> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
>>> The following packages will be REMOVED
>>> network-manager network-manager-gnome resolvconf ubuntu-minimal
>>> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 66 not upgraded.
>>> Remv network-manager-gnome [0.9.8.0-1ubuntu2]
>>> Remv network-manager [0.9.8.0-0ubuntu6]
>>> Remv ubuntu-minimal [1.299]
>>> Remv resolvconf [1.69ubuntu1]
>>> avi at fantastic:~$
>>
>> Is advising people to remove ubuntu-minimal (especially as a list
>> admin) appropriate? If you don't want to use resolvconf on a system,
>> disable it. If the few KB/MB that it takes up disturb you, use equivs
>> to create a dummy replacement resolvconf package.
>
> Advising most people to remove it? No, not a good idea. But Gene H. is not
> most people. Also, he asked a specific question, and got the answer.
1) I'm sure that Google differentiates between advice given to Gene
and advice given to someone else...
2) Advising anyone to remove ubuntu-minimal is silly.
3) I don't see how you (and one other person in this thread) think
that Gene knows what he's doing when he could only fix a networking
problem by copying some files over from another installation rather
than finding the root cause and correcting the problem directly.
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