On 07/06/18 16:00, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
A little background. I have Debian-arm 3.2.0-4-vexpress running under
QEMU. This has been working fine, but in serious need of an upgrade.
So I ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. This resulted in a long
process of updating packages.
Unfortunately, the hosting system crashed while the upgrade was
running. This resulted in some packages which were only partially
installed.
In trying to get things back I found the network interface (eth0) did
not come back up. Trying to start it with ifup eth0 results in
Might be worth trying with ifconfig eth0 up or whatever, followed
possibly by adding routes manually.
/bin/sh: 1: run-parts: Exec format error
Failed to bring up eth0
Adding --verbose gives
run-parts --exit-on-error --verbose /etc/network/if-pre-up.d
/bin/sh: 1: run-parts: Exec format error
Failed to bring up eth0
/etc/network/if-pre-up.d is empty, which is what I suspect is the
cause of the problem. However, I don't know what should be in there
on this system - or what package is supposed to install it. QEMU is
emulating a standard ethernet port (not wifi). Other systems I have
installed use wifi, so will (obviously) have something different in here.
Looking at a couple of fairly clean systems here, that directory
contains either a vlan script or a wpasupplicant symlink. In at
least one case the script is rigged to return 0 if the prerequisite
executable doesn't exist... you could try creating something like vlan
owned root:root mode 755 containing a shebang and exit 0, but TBH I
think it's more likely that some prerequisite library's screwed.
Sorry I can't be more help but I'm comparatively unpracticed at "The
Debian Way": I'm a refugee from Yggdrassil and they say you never forget
your first distro :-)