Re: [Sheflug] Changing distro woes

[Lesley Anne Binks <lesley.binks@xxxxxxxxx>]

Alex Hudson <home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote :

> Hi Lesley,
> 
> On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 15:35 +0000, Lesley Anne Binks wrote:
> > I have tried to stop this distro from deciding that eth2 needs to be
> > bought up in half-duplex mode and merrily assigning it a 169.254/16
> > network address.  But it defintely has other ideas and consistently
> > insists on having that interface up - doesn't matter how - half duplex
> > mode'll do.
> 
> This isn't a distro problem; this is just modern software - it's
> actually behaving correctly by auto-configuring a link local address.
> 
> If you configure static interfaces, it won't touch them - so you can
> either do that, or remove NetworkManager (which isn't GNOME software per
> se).
> 
> > Despite having stopped the gdm from being loaded in the relevant rcn.d
> > dir ..... and setting the default-display manager to kdm .... I get
> > gnome  Every time.
> 
> GNOME isn't tied to GDM, and logging in via GDM doesn't necessarily get
> you GNOME. 
> 
> When you get to the login screen, you should find you can select which
> Session you want to run - go in there, and select KDE. It'll remember
> your preference and do it the same next time.
> 
> Hope that helps!
>

Yes I am fully aware of the Session Manager.

I installed enlightenment last night and that worked fine except I couldn't run E-KDE so I shutdown and left it 'til this morning.  Checked by apt-get installing again and it appears kde was not installed.  Which might explain why it wasn't appearing in the Session list in the first place.

Much relief to be back in KDE.

Network Manager under Gnome via the nm-applet appears to be reporting the machine to be connected via the link-local address (i.e. connected to itself?) while the default route out from the box consistently fails to be set - despite it's existence in the interfaces file for eth0.

I'll have to look at the debian way of bringing a network up to find out why this is happening.

Regards

L.  







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