On Wednesday 13 June 2018 01:52:16 Mike Bird wrote:
On Wed June 13 2018 01:41:34 William Morder wrote:
But when I look at network configuration in other places (for instance, in Trinity Control Center), no network connections at all are supposed to be enabled.
Hi Bill,
I would ask you please to make your posts here as precise as possible, such that other people have enough information to perform the same steps as you have performed and to compare their results with yours.
Are you saying that Trinity Control Center / Peripherals / Information / / Network Interfaces shows no interfaces, not even lo?
What please is your "uptime", "cat /proc/version", "lsof /sbin/udevd", and "ps ax | grep dbus"?
--Mike
Sorry to take so long to respond. I tried to take a screenshot to show you what I meant, then my system crashed and I could not boot up again. When I tried to reinstall my system, I kept having problems, so I finally migrated over to Devuan Jessie/Beowulf (I believe it's called). Now my system is back to normal again, only better (I hope).
Brief answer: You are correct, when I looked in Trinity Control Center / Peripherals / Information / Network Interfaces I saw nothing at all there, not even lo. The same is true when I looked in Trinity Control Center / Internet & Network / Network Settings It was the same, no matter if I was user or root.
I think the problem was just that I was tired of installing and reinstalling, and futzing round with trying to get my system working, when I already had a "finely tuned system" (to quote somebody else here); so maybe I skipped some steps in my haste. When I sent that last post to the mailing list, my system was unstable, and about to crash. I was only upgrading to Debian Jessie then on to Devuan Ascii, because I read that security.debian.org servers will no longer support Jessie.
Now that I am running Devuan Jessie/Beowulf (?), I don't know if that is still true (that as of today, 17th of June, security patches for Jessie will not be supported). At least Devuan seems to run smoother than Debian. I believe that hereafter I will confine my learning experiments to my laptop, and save my desktop for actual work.
Bill