Disclaimer: I'm a linux noob, so I'm capable of almost any elementary error to do with this stuff.
Short version: Any network access freezes the console or desktop that attempts it. After login I get a KDE freeze showing nothing but the splash background. I have a boot failure with Avahi DNS daemon complaining that there are no files in /etc/avahi/services. What do I do now?
Long version:
I attempted an upgrade from Kubuntu Edgy to Feisty on Friday night, but it froze 13 minutes from completion and gave me an timeout error and froze. After the dist-upgrade log showed two "Nothing's happened for 240 seconds argh" type errors I killed the update manager. I tried to start up the adept manager again, but it was complaining that something else had a lock on the package interface.
I tried kill -9ing stuff that had adept or apt in the name, but couldn't get the GUI interfaces to work. I tried entering "apt-get upgrade", and it complained and told me to enter a dpkg configure type command. So I did that, every time going back to apt-get upgrade and entering the command it told me to (There was another apt-get command with a -f switch, but I was mostly just doing what it told me to do).
Eventually it told me it thought that it thought it was up to date and so I rebooted. The boot log (dunno what it's called, it has a list of boot devices and daemons with [ok] or [fail] next to them) shows a failure for "Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon". The KDE login screen comes up but then freezes just showing the login wallpaper. If I switch to one of my other consoles any network commands freezes that console: ping, ifconfig, ip addr show, even sudo if I login as a non-root user. I've had a look in my network config file in /etc/networks, and it is the same as it was before the upgrade.
I then logged into it again in recovery mode, and had a look at some logs in /var/logs. The following lines seem to be showing the symptoms:
No service found in /etc/avahi/services [I've looked and this directory is empty]
Can't open user face
Internal error: memory corruption detected.
Direct network access commands still freezes my shell in recovery mode.
I downloaded the alternate install CD and I've updated all my packages from the CD, so it appears not to be a package issue.
Now I could, of course, just kill the partition and reinstall feisty from scratch from the CD (which wouldn't be that awful for me), but I reckon I'll learn more by fixing this. I guess I need to get this avahi DNS daemon thingy working again. What's my best strategy for doing that? I guess I have to either reinstall some package or other, and put some files back in /etc/avahi/services.
Thanks for any help you guys can give me. I imagine I made countless mistakes after the auto upgrade fubared, but I need to move forward from the current state.
Short version: Any network access freezes the console or desktop that attempts it. After login I get a KDE freeze showing nothing but the splash background. I have a boot failure with Avahi DNS daemon complaining that there are no files in /etc/avahi/services. What do I do now?
Long version:
I attempted an upgrade from Kubuntu Edgy to Feisty on Friday night, but it froze 13 minutes from completion and gave me an timeout error and froze. After the dist-upgrade log showed two "Nothing's happened for 240 seconds argh" type errors I killed the update manager. I tried to start up the adept manager again, but it was complaining that something else had a lock on the package interface.
I tried kill -9ing stuff that had adept or apt in the name, but couldn't get the GUI interfaces to work. I tried entering "apt-get upgrade", and it complained and told me to enter a dpkg configure type command. So I did that, every time going back to apt-get upgrade and entering the command it told me to (There was another apt-get command with a -f switch, but I was mostly just doing what it told me to do).
Eventually it told me it thought that it thought it was up to date and so I rebooted. The boot log (dunno what it's called, it has a list of boot devices and daemons with [ok] or [fail] next to them) shows a failure for "Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon". The KDE login screen comes up but then freezes just showing the login wallpaper. If I switch to one of my other consoles any network commands freezes that console: ping, ifconfig, ip addr show, even sudo if I login as a non-root user. I've had a look in my network config file in /etc/networks, and it is the same as it was before the upgrade.
I then logged into it again in recovery mode, and had a look at some logs in /var/logs. The following lines seem to be showing the symptoms:
No service found in /etc/avahi/services [I've looked and this directory is empty]
Can't open user face
Internal error: memory corruption detected.
Direct network access commands still freezes my shell in recovery mode.
I downloaded the alternate install CD and I've updated all my packages from the CD, so it appears not to be a package issue.
Now I could, of course, just kill the partition and reinstall feisty from scratch from the CD (which wouldn't be that awful for me), but I reckon I'll learn more by fixing this. I guess I need to get this avahi DNS daemon thingy working again. What's my best strategy for doing that? I guess I have to either reinstall some package or other, and put some files back in /etc/avahi/services.
Thanks for any help you guys can give me. I imagine I made countless mistakes after the auto upgrade fubared, but I need to move forward from the current state.
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