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

[Brian O'Keefe]

My deepest and most heartfelt apology. Actually, Sam had left to attend
to his responsibilities and I was working with a virtual Sam server.
Brian
 On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 10:26 -0600, Sam Noble wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 22:29 -0600, Brian O'Keefe wrote:
> > Well, almost 3 hours later, after searching and hacking and not a
> > small amount of frustration,
> 
> Hey! No fair accounting for my geekerly whereabouts on publicly archived
> mailing-lists!
> /me delusionally imagines his wife cares enough to google him.	:P
> 
> > 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.
> 
> If that's not an advertisement for Thursday night meetings, I don't know
> what is.
> Plus now that I'm gone Gary can come back. </duck>
> 
> > The only question is how ipmasq got installed in the first place.
> 
> Yeah and also what was wrong with it, as I'm pretty sure the intended
> purpose of the package is not:
> 
> $ apt-cache show ipmasq |grep Description
> Description:  This service totally b0rks Brian O'Keefe's networking.
> 
> > Thanks again everyone and good fortune Sam-I owe you big time!! 
> 
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> 
> P.S. Hi from Utah, the hospital here looks really nice!
> 
> 
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