I was staring at the same problem this morning trying to recall exactly which packages I'd installed in the last couple of days. I figured it would be easy to back out if I could ask dpkg to give me the date the packages had been installed on. I read through the man page but was unable to find any such option. Is this possible with dkpg? In not, is there another program which could give me this information? Granted this time around its an easy enough fix to just replace the file, but I'm still curious.
Wil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Matta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jason Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 8:02 PM Subject: Re: Network problem > This seems to be an issue with ifconfig in the latest nettools package of > Sid(unstable), this can be fixed if you have a debian cd, like potato, i had > this happen today, and just untared the base package into my tmp dir, and > replaced the ifconfig binary. This should be fixed eventually. > > -c > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jason Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 1:08 PM > Subject: Network problem > > > > Hi, > > > > Has anyone seen this problem before? When I try and enable the network (on > bootup) I get error messages. Here is what I get when typing these commands: > > > > ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 > > SIOCSIFADDR: Bad file descriptor > > lo: unknown interface: Bad file descriptor > > > > ifconfig eth0 up > > eth0: unknown interface: Bad file descriptor > > > > This is really annoying because the local loopback doesn't work, and > obviously I can't get onto the network. Pinging anything (including > 127.0.0.1) simply says the network is unreachable. > > > > The modules for the network card seem to load fine. The problem must have > stemmed from upgrading some packages to the latest versions (in the unstable > distribution) because everything was working fine until I rebooted. I am > using kernel 2.4.1 and I've tried using an older kernel but the same things > happen, so any suggestions on how to fix this or where to look for problems? > > > > I would be very grateful for any help you could provide, > > Jason Davies. > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
