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Re: Lost networking and bash history alpha 3 [Solved]

 

On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 20:40:50 +0000
Andrew Woodhead <andrew.woodhead666@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 20:19:45 +0000
> > Andrew Woodhead <andrew.woodhead666@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 17:59:19 +0000
> > > > Andrew Woodhead <andrew.woodhead666@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Yorvyk <
> > yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > >wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Just switched on a machine I was using yesterday to test a few
> > things
> > > > and
> > > > > > found it had no networking or bash history, both of which worked
> > > > yesterday.
> > > > > >  I have tried a couple of other installations on other machines and
> > the
> > > > only
> > > > > > other one to display this behaviour is also a clean Alpha 3
> > install.
> > > >  The
> > > > > > others are upgrades from Maverick or Alpha 1.  All Lubuntu Natty
> > > > > > installations were updated yesterday.  I can't find any mention of
> > this
> > > > in
> > > > > > Launchpad, so is it some thing I've done or have I update at the
> > wrong
> > > > time.
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > If you run:
> > > > >
> > > > > less ~/.bash_history
> > > > >
> > > > > do you see your history?
> > > >
> > > > Yep, upto the last command I typed in before I ran the update.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Try renaming the file, then run some commands (even cd and ls will do)
> > >
> > > Does the history regenerate ok?
> > >
> > I was about to try that when I looked at the permissions, so I knew what
> > permissions to give the new file.  For some reason I'd no permissions at
> > all.  Reset the permissions to read/write and all is OK.  No idea what
> > caused it as there doesn't appear to be an update related to it.
> > The networking loss was solved by reinstalling dhcp3 and NM, after creating
> > a static IP etc.  Again no recent update seems to be related to this.
> > Odd that it only effected the two installs from the Alpha 3 CD and not
> > those that had been upgraded from earlier releases.
> >
> 
> Hey I can't code but I can fix stuff :)
>
Learn to code, then you can break stuff :)

-- 
Steve Cook (Yorvyk)

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