On 24/09/17 16:30, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Sunday 24 September 2017 11:59:57 Alan Corey wrote:But what's the purpose of having the gateway fields in interfaces if not to to be reliant on the routing table? But it's worth a shot, something like route add default gw 192.168.71.1That was it! Now I've used apt to update 5 packages, and its now installing synaptic and all its 2nd and 3rd cousins. 112 megs worth. I did ask it to install xfce, but it couldn't find it. I'll try lxde next, but its entirely too simple. With xfce I can set up 4 workspaces/windows and the survive a reboot. You can add them in lxde, but they don't survive a reboot. Anyway, progress, sorta. I am going to put that command in rc.local just for S&G. Oh, oh, I had to create that file, does not bode well. But we'll find out I guess.
Is there something in the /etc/network/interfaces file which is preempting what's in your .d directory?
I wouldn't put the manual route command in rc.local, I'd put it in the network interface definition as in
allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 172.27.200.5/24 post-up route add default gw 172.27.200.1 dev eth0 metric 0 pre-down route del default gw 172.27.200.1 dev eth0Even assuming that Network Mangler isn't being used, a mis-parse would not surprise me. I really can't remember the detail but I've previously come across some combination of packages which broke each other badly (something like multiple gateways breaking VLAN support).
Apropos different window managers (AKA desktop, environment etc.), a lot depends on what display manager (AKA login screen) is being used. For various reasons we favour lightdm, which generally speaking picks up the available window managers.
Apropos locales, my setup notes for putting Debian onto an RPi have ! dpkg-reconfigure tzdata ! ! apt-get update and upgrade here. Install locales (ALREADY DONE) and ! console-setup and run dpkg-reconfigure locales console-setup and ! keyboard-configuration using physical console just in case... it's ! probably better to MOVE THIS EARLIER since apt-get upgrade warns ! about some LANG etc. settings that haven't yet been established. You can see what packages are installed using something like dpkg --get-selections -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]