On Friday 31 July 2015 05:58:28 Diogene Laerce wrote: > Le 30/07/2015 18:35, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > On Wednesday 29 July 2015 18:09:36 Diogene Laerce wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have big issues recently with debian that I don't understand, > >> maybe someone could help on the matter ? > >> > >> First, debian does not want to give me any network. I really say > >> debian because I have 3 possibilities to run the OS : 2 USB sticks > >> and a PC tower, all > >> on wheezy, which worked fine til they do not for no reason. > >> > >> The one USB stick which does boot and run says, when /ifconfig eth0 > >> up/ : > >> > >> eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: no such device > >> > >> The other stick now even doesn't want to start X (but that I guess > >> is not related, surely USB stick issue). > >> > >> And the tower.. I had to install fedora because it didn't want to > >> mount my home during installation - which was a new 1To disk to > >> format, even after formatted it which gparted. Plus the unavailable > >> network issue of course, also during installation. > >> > >> These network issues only happen with debian as I could install > >> fedora with no issue at all : it took care of my home and found the > >> network without raising > >> any flag. > >> > >> Any idea ? > > > > Did you do anything to your network device(s)? New anything? New > > card? What happens with a new Debian installation? > > Well no, I didn't. Everything was fine and the same until it didn't. > > Actually it started with repetitive attempt to connect from a live > cd 7.8 version which froze my internet box (router + TV). But the > repetitive attempt seems to underline the existence of a pre-existing > issue.. I guess. > > After that, I was unable to connect from any debian device. Even a > mint live cd couldn't. But parted magic live cd could, fedora could. > > I then tried to install 8.1 but it wouldn't either and raise the home > issue with it. > > All those happen on the workstation/tower. > > > Did > > you move anyhting? > > Yes I actually change my home disk to another one, new, 1To Seagate. > > > What is the physical relationship, if any, between the > > USB sticks and the tower? > > I installed all stick OSes with the station which failed first. > > I now have access only to one USB stick : 1 does not load X as said > before and I have fedora now on the workstation (tower). > > A mysterious comrade who wants to remain anonymous it seems, I will > call him Mr T. :), advised me to look into /etc/udev/rules : eth0 had > been renamed > to eth2 with eth0 bound to the tower MAC address (fedora today) and > eth2 bound to another tower MAC address I tried the USB stick on > after. > > I deleted the first tower line and updated the eth2 definition -> > changing it > to eth0 and now it works. > > But it still does not explain why the 7.8 and 8.1 did not, on the > first tower ? > And neither why the Mint live cd did not ? And as I can't reproduce > the issue > now, I may never know. > > > What does /etc/network/interfaces say? > > > > What is the result of > > #ifconfig -a > > ? > > Now the result is normal : http://pastebin.com/DDvQCePg > > I did try to get it during the 8.1 installation though, from the > shell, but it seems that the installation shell lacks a lot of tools > and I couldn't get a clear status of what happened there. > > So I guess this is it for this issue. > > > Why did you write /lspci -n/ when the instruction was lspci -n? Did > > you try it without the fwd slash? > > Actually those are italic font markers, I did run the good command. > > Thanks to all for the good pointers,
If you search your dmesg, you wil probably find that udev, after discovering eth0, then quite a bit later, renames it according to the connection attempts made during THIS install. That bit me when I was moving the drive with a linuxcnc install on it from machine to machine while looking for a machine capable of doing the realtime correctly. So now, and the ethernet works fine once I had excised network-mangler and edited /etc/network/interfaces to tell it to use eth5. Obviously my local network is /etc/host file based, fixed addresses for all my machines. To use my fixed address methods, which are officialy discouraged by the list police you will need to edit /etc/resolv.conf after nuking the softlink that it is and creating a real file, saying "order hosts,dns" on the first line, and the address of the local dns resolver as "nameserver" on the next line. My router runs dd-wrt, so its address is used as the nameserver and it then forwards a dns query it doesn't know about to the dns servers it gets from my cable modem. And it all Just Works(TM). I have no clue what genius thought that renameing eth0 was the right thing to do, but its damned sure biteing a lot of folks that do not need to be so bitten. This list is not the only one being littered with "where's my network" questions. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201507310757.15282.ghesk...@wdtv.com
