Re: Ethernet is not started at boot
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On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 12:03:15PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> #### DO not Cc: me, I am on THE LIST and I do not need ####
> #### messages twice which make it very hard to ansewer ####
>
> Hello Tomas,
>
> Am 2018-02-06 hackte tomas@tuxteam.de in die Tasten:
> >> I have installed on my ThinkPad T400 recently Stretch (base, xorg, wdm,
> >> fvwm, gthumb, blueman, alsa...) only to discover, that 17 Packages have
> >> missing Dependencies!
> >
> > the missing dependencies?
>
> I do not know currently, except that blueman depends on glib-x11 which
> is confirmed by the maintainer. It seems gthumb has the same dependency
> because sinde blueman is working gthumb too.
I can't parse very well your last sentence.
Anyway, since I have a similarly minimalistic system as you have (I think
I'm a tad worse: I tend to avoid DBUS when I can. I think it's ugly), I
tried a simulated install of blueman:
tomas@trotzki:~$ apt -s install blueman
NOTE: This is only a simulation!
apt needs root privileges for real execution.
Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,
so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation!
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
bluez bluez-obexd dbus gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1 gir1.2-gtk-3.0
gir1.2-notify-0.7 libapparmor1 libappindicator3-1 libbluetooth3
libdbusmenu-glib4 libdbusmenu-gtk3-4 libical2 libindicator3-7
libnotify4 libpulse-mainloop-glib0 notification-daemon python3-cairo
python3-dbus python3-gi python3-gi-cairo
Suggested packages:
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth default-dbus-session-bus | dbus-session-bus
python-dbus-doc python3-dbus-dbg
Recommended packages:
policykit-1
The following NEW packages will be installed:
blueman bluez bluez-obexd dbus gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1 gir1.2-gtk-3.0
gir1.2-notify-0.7 libapparmor1 libappindicator3-1 libbluetooth3
libdbusmenu-glib4 libdbusmenu-gtk3-4 libical2 libindicator3-7 libnotify4
libpulse-mainloop-glib0 notification-daemon python3-cairo python3-dbus
python3-gi python3-gi-cairo
[...]
So it does try to install quite a bit, but far from the whole Gnome,
Do you have somewhere in your apt configuration an "Install-Recommends
no"?
I have, for example in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/95no-recommends:
APT::Install-Recommends no;
This is the only way to preserve sanity if you do care about a
minimalistic install, as you seem to do (the default is made for
people who want a "kinda-works-out-of-the-box" thing, which is
fine, but one should be aware of that).
> The dependendies are only satisfait if you install a full DE like Gnome,
> KDE or other defaults by Debian.
>
> If you install the bare minimum like
>
> Debian base
> xorg
> wdm
> fvwmg
> thumb
> blueman
> alsa
> mc
>
> you have a non-working system!
See above. For such a system (I've myself Fvwm too, heh) some fine
tuning of your package system seems necessary.
[...]
> yes, if you know, WHICH package you need, it can be installed manually
> which is already confirmed by 3 Package maintainers. They assumed,
> that Debian User install always a complete system, but where not
> thinking on users which do not need a full DE.
>
> Hence, some packages missing dependencies.
See above -- you need some tools to understand *why* the package system
"wants" to do things. One very nice one is the -s option to apt (or
apt-get), which means "simulate": there you can see what is going
to be installed. Another is apt show" <package name> which will tell
you what's in the package, which others it depends on (and which other
are "recommended" or "suggested", which may also be installed
automatically depending on your packager config: my hunch is that
this is what's happening to you).
> I will install a second stretch in a VM and install only the minimum
> and then Package by Package to figure out, which dependencies are
> missing.
>
> It is a huge work, especially when I currently work in my 5,6ha forest
> on my BioFarm in Estonia (-10°C and 30cm snow).
That sounds like some amount of fun (I always complaing about Berlin being
too cold :-/
> > Is this your problem? Would you like to install (mostly) from a set of
> > ISOs on an USB stick or similar?
>
> My T400 was under Windows 7 and had a "hardware" error which refuse to
> burn ANY DVDs. So I installed the ISO bootable on the USB Stick and
> added the second ISO to it.
>
> But it does not work.
How did you do that exactly? How do you get two DVDs ont one stick?
> Since my Interanet Server is also not running, I can not even install
> a local mirror.
I see... it should be possible to refer APT to a file system instead
of a DVD/CDROM.
> > Is this your problem? You can set a fixed IP address at install time,
> > or...
>
> This was exactly what was not working!
> The Installer could not continue.
I see.
> >> Now I have tried to change this to a fixed IP address in
> >> /etc/network/interfaces, but it showed no reaction, still started DHCP
> >> even if it is not configured.
> >
> > ...is this your problem? What did you do to your /etc/network/interfaces?
> > What is your init system?
>
> auto enp0s25
> iface enp0s25 inet static
> address 192.168.0.202
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> gateway 192.168.0.1
> network 192.168.0.0
>
>
> SysV
>
> > What do you do exactly? "ifup -a"? Or "ifup eth0"? What's the name of your
> > ethernet interface? The old-fashioned "ethX" or the new-fangled "en0pXXX"?
>
> the old fashion does not work anymore.
Heh. You can have that back (I personally don't like those new
network names -- see below[1]).
> I get an error "Device unknown"
>
> ifup enp0s25
So "ifup -a" leads to "Device unknown", did I understand you there?
That would at least explain why the init script isn't working. So
you might want to try what john doe proposed: stop your network (yes
it won't work) with the init script:
sudo /etc/init.d/networking stop
...and then start it again:
sudo /etc/init.d/networking start
Watch carefully for error messages.
>
> > How should we know? Is the broken display important?
>
> Yes, because Debian Stretch does not more boot and I can not see the
> Lilo command prompt
Hm. This is, of course, nasty.
Uh... are you using Lilo? Or Grub?
> > [...] don't panic 8-)
>
> SEGFAULT!
:-)
[1] Those new-fangled network interface names are called "predictable
interface names", which may sound sarcastic, but actually makes
some sense. If you have several ethernet interfaces, the first
one the kernel sees will be named "eth0", the second one "eth1",
etc. Machines these days tend to be pretty dynamic, so the next
time around, the names might be switched over. Imagine a firewall
where the outward-bound and the inward-bound interfaces change.
Whoops!
But for me & my laptop, where I *just* have one eth0 and one
wlan0, this scheme feels a bit... umm (let's be polite here).
So I set "net.ifnames=0" in my kernel command line at boot
and everything is fine again. Some set "biosdevname=0" too,
but I don't know currently what that does.
For Grub, set
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet net.ifnames=0"
in /etc/default/grub, run update-grub, and I think that's it
Cheers
- -- tomás
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