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Author: John Morgan Salomon
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Subject: Re: [bitfolk] Xen problem: can't boot after update to Debian Wheezy
Yeah, I have _no_ idea what happened there - all the instructions I read
seemed really straightforward.

I am still struggling with boatloads of library incompatibilities and
mismatched dependencies, but at least it's allowing me to dump some of
the cruft I've accumulated.

-John

On 2014-07-06 18:36, Keith Williams wrote:
> 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@???
> <mailto:john@zog.net>> 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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