John, You seem to have had some bad luck there! I did the Squeeze to Wheezy
upgrade and it went so smoothly! Luck of the draw I guess
On 6 July 2014 17:12, John Morgan Salomon <john@???> wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> thanks for pointing that out - I must have had an old config, or it was
> overwritten - not sure.
>
> ifupdown was not installed; installing that fixed it persistently across
> reboots.
>
> Now I'm just struggling with lighttpd untraceably refusing to start up,
> but that's something I'm leaving for another day. If I'd known an upgrade
> would cause this many problems....when will you start supporting FreeBSD?
> :-)
>
> Best regards, and many many thanks again for your patience and help. I
> hope the solutions to all my missteps help someone else at some point.
>
> -John
>
>
> On 2014-07-06 02:25, Andy Smith wrote:
> > Hi John,
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 06, 2014 at 01:34:17AM +0200, John Morgan Salomon wrote:
> >> auto eth0
> >> iface eth0 inet static
> >> address 85.119.82.201
> >> netmask 255.255.255.0
> >> gateway 85.119.82.1
> >
> > Netmask and gateway are incorrect. Netmask should be 255.255.248.0,
> > gateway should be 85.119.80.1. This may not be the issue but it
> > certainly won't be helping.
> >
> > If that doesn't fix it, being logged in to the console and seeing
> > what "ifdown eth0" and "ifup eth0" does might get us further.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andy
> >
> >
> >
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