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Re: Wheezy removed ifupdown



On 2012-05-20 18:07 +0200, Ramon Hofer wrote:

> After upgrading the packages in Wheezy amd64 I can't connect to the 
> network anymore. This is on my htpc where I only have xbmc running. So no 
> gnome, kde, etc.
> Every other computer in the network has no problems.
>
> I can't even ping localhost. It says "connect: Network is unreachable".
> What I can do is assign a network address manually. But this doesn't help.
>
> When I try ifdown eth0 it tells me that the command is not found. In the 
> apt history.log (which you can find below) one can find "Remove: 
> ifupdown:amd64 (0.7~alpha5+really0.6.16)" which for me seems to be the 
> cause of the problem.

The lesson to be learned from this is to always watch out for important
packages that are to be removed when dist-upgrading, and to bail out if
necessary.

> I now downloaded the package from my laptop, copied it to a usb stick and 
> installed it with dpkg -i.
>
> But the problem is when I do a dist-upgrade it will ignore the ifupdown 
> package?

It would likely remove it again.

> Should I now just install the package with apt-get again?

Run "apt-get update" first.

> And why did this happen?

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=672851

Cheers,
       Sven


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