Michael Thompson wrote:
Dear Debian,
I have sent a few emails already, but I suspect I've been talking to the wrong
person...
I'm sure there's a way (on gmail) to forward an email I've sent, to an
additional recipient, but for the life of me, I can't see it.
This is clumsy, but so am I.
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Dear Debian,
Hello guys, sorry to bring this up and bother you again, but ....
Using sid with the aarnet.edu.au <http://aarnet.edu.au> mirror, and an update
took out my networking. That was about 14 hours ago.
No way to get updates or fixes... leave it a while, and reinstall ~ from the
12.2 netinstall.
After the 3rd or 4th, I started doing a VirtualBox clone of a base Debian stable,
and then playing with that. Easier than doing the whole install & upgrade.
First attempt, I set the aarnet mirror up in sources.list for install, but
changed it to
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian <http://deb.debian.org/debian> sid main
contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian <http://deb.debian.org/debian> sid main
contrib non-free
~ and that's all. The problem persists. It isn't a problem with the Australian
mirror. It has been going on for nearly a day now.
If you would like (let me know) I will clone it again and do the dist-upgrade
to full sid and then investigate as you suggest, but ... For now, I'm just
letting you know that sid has networking that's broken. I don't know what is
broken, but it takes out your whole networking and network cards / adaptors.
Yours respectfully, Mike
Hi Mike,
I'm on sid and if I was to do a dist-upgrade now it will remove network-manager:
The following packages will be REMOVED:
network-manager plasma-nm wireshark-qt
So I wouldn't do a dist-upgrade right now :)
You have to be careful and watch what it's telling you.
Regards,
Geoff
