Re: Big problem computer not booting

[Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>]

On 08/10/2017 12:00 PM, kelsang sherab wrote:
> I run Debian stretch on MacBook Air
>
> I did a restore backup from previous system[debian Jessie ]
>
> Now machine is not booting
>
> upon boot the machine gives the normal GRUB menu:
> Debian GNU/Linux
> Advanced options for Debian GNU/linux
>
> Click the 1st one
>
> saying
> Loading etc
> Loading initial ram disk
>
> then a list of checks
>
> [  0.049346] DMAR-IR:[Firmware Bug] : ioapic 2 has no mappin iommu,
> interrupt remapping will be disabled
> /dev/sda2: clean, 348430/7118848 files, 7186186/28466432 blocks
> [      3.895353] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
> [      3.895361] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write trhough
> [FAILED] Failed to start Network Manager Wait Online.
> See 'systemctl status NetwrokManager-wait-online.service' for details.
> then a list of things starting all [OK]
>
> and then nothing happens
>
> Switching the machine off and re-starting it into the advance option i
> get some root access and i see al my files.I am not able to connect to the internet
> When trying to do something like apt-get update
> the system returns that a shared library libapt-pkg.so.4.12 is not
> installed.
> but I have no internet access so I cannot either find the lib or install
> it. And so I cannot update the system and it feels like a catch 22
> I could really do with some help


I don't know, but maybe I can help with the network, do an '#ifconfig 
-a' to get the name of your interface and then '#ifconfig 
(name-of-interface) up' and see if that helps get things going.

Cheers,
--
Jimmy Johnson

Debian Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda6
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