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eltebe

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Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 8

[solved] network gone after last update (vmware player)

at boot i get no such interface error

from ifconfig i get only loopback

dmesg

vmxnet: disagrees about version of symbol ...
vmxnet: Unknown symbol ...

Removed interfaces and added again with same result

Let me know if i should file a bug or how to fix it.

Ps. glibc update finished ok
Ps2. using open-vm-tools-modules 21-2 ( will check 21-5) if it fixes issue need usb dongle to do so though
ps3 will try chroot from iso and update

Last edited by eltebe (2012-07-24 15:54:54)

eltebe

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Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 8

Re: [solved] network gone after last update (vmware player)

I'm slowly approaching dead end. first of all I had to clear pacman cache in order to install new packages - out of space = can't downgrade. Now I don't have fat support to mount USB dongle. Only option working is ISO image mounted as CD in vmplayer and even that not always. Can't boot from this though(from grub command line I see only fd0/hd0). I will try brand new VM install and copy all files pacman downloads(core/extra etc) to USB dongle with ext2 instead fat32. maybe then I can mount copy to system and feed list of required packages back to usb and get them on fresh VM.:

Last edited by eltebe (2012-07-24 06:40:06)

eltebe

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Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 8

Re: [solved] network gone after last update (vmware player)

not sure now what was the cause(maybe kernel/gcc those I updated) but i fixed it with those steps

1 new vm with netinstall iso mounted(didn't even install arch on sda) ifconfig eth0 up, dhcpcd eth0
2 usb dongle with ext2 filesystem(made with netinstall vm)
3 pacman -Sy and feed var/lib/pacman/ from bootcd vm to the one with problems
4 save needed packages list on usb from vm with problems(pacman -Sup --noconfirm > /mnt/pendrive/pkglist)
5 set pacman cache on pendrive mount in netinstall vm(/etc/pacman.conf)
6 make pacman -S .....all_from_pkglist..... just leave package names alone and save, chmod a+x,run(wget didn't work out - maybe outdated mirror or paths)
7 copy downloaded packages from pendrive to /var/cache/pacman/pkg on broken vm
8 run pacman -Su on vm with problems

I might have changed something in the process of fixing things but I don't recall it now
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Of … f_Packages was usefull
It is marked as out of date but it worked. Maybe because i haven't done it step by step and took only bits I needed

Last edited by eltebe (2012-07-24 19:57:03)