Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu 16.04 upgrade problem

["Gary Duzan" <gary@duzan.org>]

In Message <E6838E65-A862-44C8-B751-C78A4638F129@camalytics.com>,
   "Eric H. Johnson" <ejohnson@camalytics.com>wrote:

=>Eric,
=>
=>Just tried that. Did not work. Funny thing is dhclient release and renew still brings the network back.
=>
=>I might have been wrong about needing to start network-manager manually. Now I just need to do a release and renew with dhclient.

   16.04 is systemd, so try "systemctl --state=failed", then
"systemctl status" on anything reported to get the details. Doing
this after a fresh reboot should give the most information.

				Gary Duzan



=>Thanks,
=>Eric
=>
=>On August 8, 2016 7:42:19 PM EDT, Eric Lucas <eric@lucii.org> wrote:
=>>For a quick workaround try setting it up with static network addressing
=>>and
=>>see if that works and is stable.
=>>
=>>Eric Lucas
=>>
=>>On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 7:18 PM, Eric H. Johnson
=>><ejohnson@camalytics.com>
=>>wrote:
=>>
=>>> All,
=>>>
=>>>
=>>>
=>>> Poor timing on my part. I donated a computer to a senior center, and
=>>just
=>>> upgraded it to 16.04. I am running into a problem, and about to leave
=>>town.
=>>>
=>>>
=>>>
=>>> The upgrade indicated that it had a problem and needed to roll back,
=>>> however after I rebooted at the end it was showing the OS as 16.04.
=>>The
=>>> problem is that the networking is not coming up automatically. I can
=>>start
=>>> it manually with
=>>>
=>>>
=>>>
=>>> service network-manager start
=>>>
=>>> dhclient -r
=>>>
=>>> dhclient
=>>>
=>>>
=>>>
=>>> Additionally, if I use settings | network and turn the network off
=>>and on,
=>>> networking will again stop working, however network-manager is still
=>>> working, because at that point, if I just release and renew dhcp
=>>(dhcient)
=>>> then the network will come back. I can try setting a fixed ip
=>>address, but
=>>> I do not think that is going to work because network-manager is not
=>>coming
=>>> up.
=>>>
=>>>
=>>>
=>>> I need at least a quick work around. Any ideas?
=>>>
=>>>
=>>>
=>>> Thanks,
=>>>
=>>> Eric
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