[Oneiric Beta] TODAY'S UPDATE *BREAK* NETWORKING ON 3 MACHINES

[Swâmi Petaramesh]

On 3 machines this morning (one amd64, 2 i386, all Oneiric Beta) updated the following packages :

light-themes_0.1.8.25_all.deb
ca-certificates-java_20110912ubuntu2_all.deb
ca-certificates_20110502+nmu1ubuntu3_i386.deb

As a result, on all 3 machines, after reboot :

- NO NETWORK, ALL INTERFACES DOWN (Eth, WLAN), Network-manager seems b0rked.

- Worked around this by manual ifconfig / route add, for the purpose of reporting this bug.

- No other change made on any of the 3 machines except for upgrading these 3 packages, rebooting, network lost.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: ca-certificates 20110502+nmu1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 1ea6109db29b53f721a523a77b7f3abf
CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
Date: Wed Sep 21 08:48:54 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fr_FR:fr:en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ca-certificates
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-04 (16 days ago)

[Yann (yourfrenchman)]

Hi

How do we do to update it when there is no network at all ? Do we have to re-install everything ?

[Swâmi Petaramesh (swami-petaramesh)]

You can activate the network the "good old Linux way" without using the NetworkManager, i.e. by using "ifconfig" and "route" from the terminal, or by setting parameters in /etc/network/interfaces. Will be easier for Ethernet than for Wi-Fi.