So I’ve foolishly upgraded a machine at work to Karmic and after a reboot, networking was completely broken.
Awesome. Why does Ubuntu break every time you upgrade? It gives “Linux” a bad name.
Looks like it’s a problem with the dhcpcd script. When running dhcpcd eth0, it errors saying that eth0 does not exist, when indeed it does.
Calling dhcpcd-bin eth0 works correctly.
Removing dhcpcd with –purge and re-installing it fixed the problem.
Sigh.
Just have a look at the release notes for some impressive 40+ bugs. File corruption on large files (over 512MB! Woh!), Hibernation broken, Jockey awesomeness, broken RAID, X server crash with Wacom table, blah, blah, blah. Then there’s all the others which surface when every poor sod running Jaunty tries an upgrade..
Ubuntu, where stable != stable.
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