Upgrade to Debian testing hosed my system
Mark Phillips
mark at phillipsmarketing.biz
Thu Jan 24 09:56:17 MST 2013
The IP address is the same as before, so I don't think there are any
collisions. IE, the computer name is beagle, and "ping beagle" returns the
correct IP address.
I will try the live cd and mnt option to report back.
Thanks,
Mark
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:57 AM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com <
kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:
> Weird that you can ping the box and not see anything at boot.
> I'd try to rule out a duplicate IP address (as stupid as it sounds, been
> there, done that...)
> I'd boot the box with a Debian Live CD, then
> .- mount the box Debian partition to /mnt
> .- mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
> .- chroot /mnt
> And begin typing 'apt-get update/apt-get upgrade' away as necessary.
> YMMV...
> ET
>
>
> Mark Phillips writes:
>
>> I used aptitude to upgrade a headless server from Debian stable to Debian
>> testing. The upgrade did not generate any error messages, but when I
>> rebooted I could not ssh into the box (connection refused) nor do I get
>> any
>> output on a monitor I attached to the box (no signal). Apache does not
>> appear to be running either on the box (could not connect to the box). I
>> can successfully ping the box.
>> Any suggestions on how to fix this this server would be greatly
>> appreciated!
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
>>
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