Re: [LUG] apt ate my resolv.conf

[Philip Hudson <phil.hudson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 16 May, 2011, at 5:34 pm, Kevin Lucas wrote:

> on the grub boot menu I just go back to the old kernel the "reslove"  
> to
> find out what happened later

<snip>

> On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 17:14 +0100, Philip Hudson wrote:
> > On 16 May, 2011, at 4:55 pm, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 16 May 2011, Philip Hudson wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 16 May, 2011, at 4:44 pm, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Mon, 16 May 2011, Philip Hudson wrote:
> > > > > > Just did a debian apt-get dist-upgrade, new kernel, so rebooted,
> > > > > > stone me, blank resolv.conf WTF!
> > > >
> > > > Now squid won't resolve DNS, no matter how many times I restart it
> > > > WTF WTF
> > >
> > > Nothing will if /etc/resolv.conf is empty.
> > >
> > > (well, unless you have a very well populated /etc/hosts file)
> >
> > You know that thing that always works on Windows but you never need  
> > to
> > do on linux? Reboot-to-fix-it? WFM (though resolv.conf got nuked  
> > again).

I might have mentioned that as well as restoring resolv.conf from  
backup I did temporarily revert to the previous kernel, but it didn't  
make any difference. I think it's something called "Network Manager"  
doing the damage, possibly a Gnome thing.

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