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#1 2010-04-27 20:49:46

archer334
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All network interfaces gone after system update

Hello I'm hoping that this is a very common problem, I could not find much about this exact situation so I figured i would give it  a shot on the forum. I just finished my arch install about an hour ago and everything went great. My wireless was detected and I was downloading packages. I then ran pacman -Syu and then rebooted when it was finished now when I type iwconfig I only got lo. I have  the same result with ifconfig -a. When I try lspci my card is detected. I have also tried modprobe ipw2100 with a result of " could not load /lib/modules/2.6.30-ARCH/modules.dep no such directory". Lemme no if you have any suggestions. Thanks for your time!

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#2 2010-04-27 20:53:25

falconindy
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Re: All network interfaces gone after system update

were there any errors reported during the -Syu? Something definitely went wrong at some point, and I'm guessing it was during the kernel upgrade. The current kernel is 2.6.33 -- 2.6.30 is the kernel used on the 2009.08 install media.

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#3 2010-04-27 21:04:12

archer334
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Re: All network interfaces gone after system update

yes there was an error and it was about the kernel. Would it be in a log somewhere?

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#4 2010-04-27 21:23:02

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Re: All network interfaces gone after system update

Quite probably. logs are in /var/log


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#5 2010-04-28 16:31:46

archer334
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Re: All network interfaces gone after system update

Well I reinstalled and everything was the way it should be again. Not for long though. pacman -Syu worked and everything was up to date. I then installed XFCE4 and that went well also. I logged onto the system today and again no network interfaces. When I type in /etc/rc.d/hald start I get [FAIL]. Then when I try /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes I get an error message that states failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket. I also [FAIL] to start or stop dbus. My DAEOMONS array in rc.conf looks like this..(hal sys-log-ng network netfs crond) and my MODULES line is just

MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
MODULES=()

Also if it is any help startx brings up xfce with no mouse or keyboard functionality so I have to restart every time.


Thanks for the help guys.

Last edited by archer334 (2010-04-28 17:30:31)

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#6 2010-04-28 16:40:21

theapodan
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Re: All network interfaces gone after system update

I don't know about your kernel issue; something sounds amiss.

The nonfunctional keyboard/mouse might be fixed by installing the appropriate drivers, look here:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X#Troubleshooting

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#7 2010-04-28 18:20:15

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Re: All network interfaces gone after system update

I think all the symptons can be explained by the failure to start dbus: no dbus -> no hal -> no mouse / kbd.
So you need to figure out why dbus isn't starting. Try to execute the commands in /etc/rc.d/dbus directly from the console.


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#8 2010-04-28 18:35:43

archer334
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Re: All network interfaces gone after system update

Yes I agree, Here is my output of /etc/rc.d/dbus "{start|stop|restart|reload}. Iv been working on it a little and it looks like dbus is working now

/etc/rc.d/dbus start    [DONE]

/etc/rc.d/hal  start         [DONE]

what I did to fix this was remove /var/run/dbus.pid

This did not seem to change my network interfaces though. I still have no extensions, kbd, mouse, and XFCE seems frozen when I startx. I am a bit newbish so if anyone has any suggestions feel free. Thanks guys

Last edited by archer334 (2010-04-28 18:36:39)

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#9 2010-04-29 02:42:56

archer334
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Re: All network interfaces gone after system update

Ok, I reinstalled Arch again. Before I update and all that fun stuff is there a way I can back up this copy of arch so if I screw it up I can always revert back to the "untouched" system? I'm thinking it can be done through grub but I'm not sure.

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