Re: Up-gradation problem with gnome 2.14

[Alberto Fuentes <alberto.fuentes@qindel.com>]

On 06/14/2012 09:33 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Alberto Fuentes wrote:
> > Joy Sankar Sengupta wrote:
> > > After executing the command I got the following output:-
> > > # generated by NetworkManager, do not edit!
> >
> > I dont know if you suffer from other problems/bugs as others said,
> > but your main problem is that you dont have a DNS server set in your
> > computer as seen in your empty /etc/resolv.conf and your previous
> > error
> > > Err http://http.us.debian.org etch Release.gpg
> > > Could not resolve 'http.us.debian.org'
>
> Agreed.  But why is resolv.conf empty?  That is the first problem to
> solve.  Solve it first.
>
> > One way to fix it is to
> > $ sudo -i
> > # echo "servername 8.8.8.8">>  /etc/resolv.conf
>
> Almost but not quite.  The word is "nameserver" not "servername".  And
> to deal with potential broken lines there now I would truncate the
> file with full contents.  This would fix it.

hehe silly me. God bless peer review :D


>    # echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8">  /etc/resolv.conf
>
> And of course 8.8.8.8 is Google's public dns service.  An easy to
> remember address.  Should work to get you going.
>
> HOWEVER!  The file is probably empty due to not having any network
> connection.  Instead of doing the above at all I think it would be
> better to determine what the network problem is all about and fixing
> it first.  Then with that fixed the /etc/resolv.conf issue will be
> fixed too.


Yeah, agreed. Check for the box that is giving you ip. Something is 
wrong with it as they usually gives you dns automatically too. If you 
dont have control of that box, the above is a nice workaround tho.

> Bob