On Monday 20 August 2018 20:08:11 David Wright wrote: > On Mon 20 Aug 2018 at 16:27:18 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 20 August 2018 11:13:08 Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 10:33:29AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >sudo reboot doesn't unmount the system drive cleanly enough? Then > > > > I'd call it a bug. > > > > > > I'm sure you would. But for all of your wall-of-text ranting, you > > > failed to ever provide basic information like "what is the result > > > of trying to mount the partition" so we're left guessing here. > > > > If you had read that wall of text, the error was that the new > > version of ext4 supported stuff the wheezy version didn't and it > > recommended getting an updated e2fs-utils, which of course is not > > available in a wheezy repo. > > Yes, I still don't understand why you install stretch but then run > wheezy. It's normal for modern systems to understand older formats, > but old systems' authors can't foresee future features. Say that fast. > > > So I reboot to a different installer supplied by the linuxcnc > > people, and installed it. Weird, I had access to the network, and > > could download updates, but when I looked in /dev/ no sign of either > > eth0 or enp0s8. > > Eh? in /dev? > Absolutely no trace of either an eth# or an enp0s# there. At that point I looked to see if it was 5 o-clock yet. Wasn't, dammit.
> > Installed some more stuff with aptitude,logged out and rebooted to > > that install, and now my network is dead. > > So, working from a terminal, I've tried to configure it manually, > > and that fails, so I am now back on wheezy, which Just Works. And > > I've no quick and dirty way to copy/paste those errors after a > > reboot, isolating that filesystem from wheezy. > > > > If you want to help, give me a link to a printable tut on how to > > make a working static, host based for local lookups, but uses my > > router, which in turn will forward the dns requests it cannot answer > > from dnsmasq, to real servers on the outside network, like my isp's > > network. On stretch. > > > > I've read the gibberish man page for ip & friends, since ifconfig is > > gone, and apparently so it route, but gibberish is the correct term > > when there is not a working example line in the whole man page just > > to prove it works. > > Eh? > > $ cat /etc/debian_version > 9.5 > $ /sbin/ifconfig not found > enp1s0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > ether 08:9e:01:c8:67:7e txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) > RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) > RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 > TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) > TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 > > lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536 > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 > inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host> > loop txqueuelen 1 (Local Loopback) > RX packets 594 bytes 42487 (41.4 KiB) > RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 > TX packets 594 bytes 42487 (41.4 KiB) > TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 > > wlp2s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.1.17 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast > 192.168.1.255 inet6 fe80::e8b:fdff:fe0b:67fb prefixlen 64 scopeid > 0x20<link> ether 0c:8b:fd:0b:67:fb txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) > RX packets 1291291 bytes 238957455 (227.8 MiB) > RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 > TX packets 157560 bytes 65731010 (62.6 MiB) > TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 > > $ /sbin/route not found, even with a sudo preface for both of them. > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use > Iface default router 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 > 0 wlp2s0 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 > 0 0 wlp2s0 $ > > > So I've zero network troubleshooting tools when booted to stretch. > > And you are giving me what for, but zero help. > > > > So show me a tut which I can use to make it work, Mike. > > O'Really? Gene, meet google. Google, meet Gene. There are whole tomes > of this stuff which are downloadable in slightly frayed editions. > I've posted references to one or two, generally under Owlett threads. I'll have to go back and look, might even have one or two marked important. > Cheers, Take care David. -- 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>