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cannot connect to the internet after updates were installed

Hello,

I had not done updates for quite a while and there seemed to be alot. After I rebooted, I lost my connectivity (wired). I use other OS on same computer with internet access so it is not a hardware issue. I tried to use wicd but got message :

Code:

no module named dbus

Do I add:

Code:

auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp

Code:

/etc/network/interfaces

? Not used to using the cli to solve networking issues so would need help with this....

*Looks like there is no

Code:

/etc/network/interfaces

per se.

Thanks in advance...

Are you certain the dbus daemon is running?

Code:

service dbus start

Alex Brinister

I did:

Code:

/usr/bin/service start service_dbus

chmod: cannot access `/etc/rc.d/rc.service_dbus': No such file or directory

No service_dbus service

I also tried:

Code:

/usr/bin/service start service_wicd

it said wicd started but still no internet...

I'm stumped.

This means the DBUS service is not called service_dbus. What is the output of

Code:

ls -l /etc/rc.d

Alex Brinister

Hello Alex,

BTW thanks for your patience, as I still understand so little of what's ''under the hood'' in linux in general...

Here is the result of ls - /etc/rc.d:

Code:

ls -l /etc/rc.d      

total 324

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 May 29 21:23 desc.d

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    4 Jul  7 15:40 rc.0 -> rc.6

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  6412 May 24 10:44 rc.0.new

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  433 Jul  7 15:40 rc.3

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1308 Mar 22 21:55 rc.4

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  6339 Mar 22 21:55 rc.6

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  2686 Mar 22 21:55 rc.K

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  4687 Mar 22 21:55 rc.M

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  9208 Mar 22 21:55 rc.S

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  552 Apr 16  2011 rc.acpid

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  2771 Feb  8  2012 rc.alsa

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2784 Mar  6  2010 rc.autofs

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  2529 Oct  5  2010 rc.avahidaemon

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1627 Jan  7  2012 rc.avahidnsconfd

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  497 Mar  7  2011 rc.bluetooth

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4852 Mar  4  2011 rc.cgconfig

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  3397 Mar  4  2011 rc.cgred

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  572 Dec 19  2010 rc.consolekit

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  3287 Jun 14  2008 rc.cpufreq

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  754 May 16 17:40 rc.cpufreq.conf

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4318 Jan 22  2011 rc.cups

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  119 Apr 30  2010 rc.font

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1893 Jan 31  2011 rc.fuse

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  906 Nov  9  2010 rc.hald

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14356 Jan 31  2010 rc.inet1

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4348 Jan 31  2010 rc.inet1.conf

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  497 Sep 12  2003 rc.inetd

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1924 Apr 30  2007 rc.ip_forward

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  140 Mar 22 22:04 rc.keymap

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1450 Mar 22 21:55 rc.licences

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1552 Feb 28  2010 rc.lirc

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  114 Mar 22 21:55 rc.local

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1935 Oct  5  2010 rc.mcelog

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1740 Dec 24  2010 rc.messagebus

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 46357 Mar 18  2011 rc.modules

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2585 Feb 10  2011 rc.mysqld

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  2449 Mar 22  2011 rc.nfsd

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  804 Jan 26  2011 rc.ntpd

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  310 Mar 22 21:56 rc.numlock

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1722 Mar 16  2007 rc.pcmcia

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4996 Nov 14  2010 rc.postinstall

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1402 May 18  2007 rc.rpc

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  791 Mar 11  2011 rc.samba

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1169 May 15  2009 rc.saslauthd

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2895 Feb 16  2011 rc.serial

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  2341 Mar 22 21:55 rc.services

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  895 Mar 20  2011 rc.snmpd

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  676 Jul  7 15:40 rc.splash

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1600 Feb  8  2011 rc.sshd

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  981 Oct 21  2010 rc.syslog

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  5058 Dec 13  2010 rc.udev

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  774 Apr 30  2010 rc.wicd

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12835 Mar 22 21:59 rc.wireless

-rw------- 1 root root  7320 Jan  3  2010 rc.wireless.conf

I see messagebus listed (systemwide) but should dbus (per-user-login-session message bus) be listed as a separate rc file?

Not that I know of. I have always thought that dbus was system-wide anyway (hence the daemon).

Alex Brinister

hello again Alex,

I really don't know what to do next if NetworkConfig gui doesn't start: I don't know the exact commands in Zenwalk to get my wired connection working again. BTW I am using a router and Dynamic IP...

Also the Zenwalk wiki, online manual are down (in English) and one still CANNOT join the Zenwalk forum there is a template error and I had tried to contact the webmaster- but no reply!

(General Error
template->_tpl_load_file(): File ./styles/bo2Soft/template/captcha_qa.html does not exist or is empty

Please notify the board administrator or webmaster: webmaster@tulipe.kergonna.fr)

I will eventually start a new thread for that eventually because being able to join the Zenwalk forum would be helpful as well.

Have you started DBUS? Is wicd working? Why do you need NetworkManager? Are there errors?

Alex Brinister

Alex,

I wanted to know the EXACT command in the terminal because I am not familiar with Zenwalk or Slackware. I'm more comfortable with Ubuntu derivatives (Debian based) for example.

I guess i will try ''dbus-launch wicd''

and see what happens.

The command is

Code:

/etc/rc.d/rc.messagebus start

Alex Brinister

Unfortunately, I still couldn't get the network started:

Code:

# /etc/rc.d/rc.messagebus start      

1355 ?        Ss    0:00 dbus-daemon

1625 ?        Ss    0:00 dbus-daemon

I tried to modify /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf by adding use DHCP: yes and the Default Gateway IP and my DHCP hostname but messagebus start command gave new numbers:

Code:

# /etc/rc.d/rc.messagebus start      

1989 ?        Ss    0:00 dbus-daemon

1989 ?        Ss    0:00 dbus-daemon

but still no internet access...

Do you think that any other vital config. file may have gotten scrapped during the updates?

BTW, the Network Gui Panel and Netpkg Gui had both randomly stopped working at some point, don't have a clue why, and those had been nice features...

Try to restart it

Code:

/etc/rc.d/rc.messagebus restart

Also try to restart the hal daemon

Code:

/etc/rc.d/rc.hald restart

Alex Brinister

Hello Alex,

I forgot to mention that I had tried to restart and even reload the messagebus; I figured out the possible commands with the tab button. At the time I had just logged out of Zenwalk and no change, but when I rebooted back into Zenwalk, finally!! I had network access again!

So I want to thank you again for your patience. Now I know a tiny bit more about linux in general-and at the same time, less gui dependant; that if all the components are still installed, its likely the services just have to be restarted- don't know if I am wording it right....

I'm still going to open a thread asking about access to Zenwalk forum, in case anyone has any info about it...