Re: eth0 "disabled" after upgrade Squeeze to Wheezy
On Friday 15 November 2013 17:05:04 Tom H wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>
wrote:
> > On Friday 15 November 2013 15:29:00 Tom H wrote:
> >> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Lisi Reisz
> >> <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> >>> I have just upgraded a client's computer to Wheezy. It appeared
> >>> to go well and there was certainly an internet connection: it
> >>> would not have been able to upgrade otherwise!
> >>>
> >>> Now there is none. I have checked /etc/network/interfaces and
> >>> changed "allow-hotplug" to "auto", just for something to try.
> >>> :-( It made no difference. I pinged the gateway, largely so
> >>> that I could report that I had done so. I got the error message
> >>> "Network is unreachable".
> >>>
> >>> KControl tells me that eth0 is "disabled". How and why is it
> >>> disabled? More importantly, **how do I enable it?**
> > # ifup -a
> > ifup: failed to open statefile /run/network/ifstate: No such file
> > or directory
>
> "ifup -a" should bring up all interfaces marked "auto" (or
> "allow-auto") in "/etc/network/interfaces". (Is the latter OK?)
>
> The "networking" init script must (I haven't checked it) create
> "/run/network". etc.
>
> Change the shebang of "/etc/init.d/networking" to "#!/bin/sh -ex"
> and run "/etc/init.d/networking stop" then "/etc/init.d/networking
> start".
Done.
#ping 192.168.0.1
connect: Network is unreachable
:-(
Lisi
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