[nmglug] Re:lost xserver upon upgrade is OK now, no network tho!

[Brian O'Keefe]

A note: I met Josh not Jonas (Povilas Skadis) last night. Jonas was at a
table nearby selling his Powerbook and gave me his card.
I thought that I should add an update for general information in case it
adds to the knowledge base.
Last night I was connected to the cybermesa DNS addresses according to
my /etc/resov.conf file. I did an upgrade of packages last night when
the update daemon showed up in the menu bar. Many packages installed
that were updates Sam did only hours before, Evolution, etc. So I did
the upgades. I got a restart notification so I did and guess what? No
internet upon rebooting. I futzed around with all of the command line
stuff and all the settings were correct. I tried network tools and could
ping cybermesa but not my router. I thought back to the D-Link manual
where it said "be sure your computer is set to the D-Link address
192.168.0.1". I used the gnome-network-manager and chose my home account
and then noticed that WiFiradar should no connection to home. I chose
connect for home in WiFiradar and it connected to 192.168.0.1. I am on
line.
My understanding of what makes sense here is zero. I seem to be in the
"click on a bunch of stuff and hope for the best" mode.
BTW, /etc/resolv.conf now has (set by wifiradar):
domain cybermesa.com
nameserver 192.168.0.1

Anyway, thanks again and I hope to see everyone at the next NMGLUG
meeting. Good luck Sam!

On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 22:29 -0600, Brian O'Keefe wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 15:47 -0600, Brian O'Keefe wrote:
> > On Thursday 27 April 2006 1:04 pm, Sam Noble wrote:
> > I tried and tried!!
> 
> Well, serendipity has shined on me 2 nights in a row!! Last night my
> wife and I went to see if we could get tickets at the Lensic for Howard
> Zinn. It was sold out but as we walked up to the door, there was a guy
> holding 2 tickets. I asked him if he was selling them and he said "no,
> I'm giving them away"! We took him up on his offer.
> Today I took my limping powerbook to SFBC to see if I could log on there
> but no luck. I thought, "I wonder if any NMGLUG members will be hanging
> around", but I didn't spot any overt activity and I had no idea of who
> looked like who. I overheard a couple guys talking Ubuntu and when they
> were done I asked if they were members of the list. They said yes and I
> introduced myself and they were Jason and Sam! Jason had to go but Sam
> said he'd stay and fix me up. Well, almost 3 hours later, after
> searching and hacking and not a small amount of frustration, it turned
> out that:
> My distro was all screwed up from my bad attempts at upgrading
> I had ipmasq installed and it was blocking my connection from any router
> 
> Sam turned off the ipmasq package and did some clean up and here I am,
> at home, on Dapper, sending this message! Little did I know that Sam was
> leaving the state tomorrow morning!
> Anyway, the good thing is that I'm all fixed up, I could not have ever
> figured this out and I cannot imagine if we could have pulled it off
> using the list but that's all done with.
> The only question is how ipmasq got installed in the first place.
> Thanks again everyone and good fortune Sam-I owe you big time!!
> 
> 
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