Re: Upgrade from stable to testing hosed my server

[Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz>]

Well, after some poking around I finally solved the problem....

1. The onboard nic was not dead, just a little confused.

2. The problem was in /etc/fstab in this line

//192.168.25.105/orca /home/share cifs file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755,uid=1000,gid=1000,rw    0    0

I found these errors in the logs - 

CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -6

When I commented out the line above in /etc/fstab, everything started working again. 

The network mount was for a NAS that turned out not to work very well, so I removed it from the network and must have forgotten to comment out that line in /etc/fstab.

I hate it when things like that come back to haunt you years later.....

Mark

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Peter Viskup <skupko.sk@gmail.com> wrote:

On 01/24/2013 05:51 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:

Peter,

Can I access the log if I boot the machine with a live cd of some kind?

Mark

Hello Mark,
read the release notes first and think about what you did wrong.

I do not know how you proceed with the upgrade, but yes there are paths like these:
/var/log/dpkg.log
/var/log/aptitude
/var/log/apt/

The quickest solution will be to restore package states using the commands 'dpkg --get-selections' and 'dpkg --set-selections'. Or simply install all the missing ones - once you remember what packages you installed on the system before. Some of these procedures are documented in the release notes - therefore I highly recommend you to read it.
You can use the Debian installation CD/DVD and boot into 'rescue mode'.

--
Peter