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It seems to be a bug in 12.10

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debconf/+bug/1061037

So if ZFS would be perfect why not install FreeBSD?

Google uses port 587 the log shows you are using port 25

What does the mail log say?

I forgot where it is on Ubuntu, my guess would be /var/log/mail/maillog , I'm using FreeBSD for my server now.

donsmouse:

If the SMTP server is accessible just by your internal network, which based on your main,cf it is, there's no problem with Comcast.

I just set up a similar server myself, with...

A little late, maybe to late, but for the record.

Using the walk-through as reference you have to do the following:

In the section Creating a new config replace these steps:

cp...

I fixed the article.

Here's the article on how to compile a Ubuntu 10.10 kernel with "sched: automated per tty task groups" kernel patch
...

Done :) Not in a x64 environment, but i386.


# cat /proc/sys/kernel/sched_autogroup_enabled
1
# uname -a
Linux MonteCarlo 2.6.35-23-tty #40-Ubuntu SMP Fri Nov 19 22:58:39 EST 2010 i686...

A little bit more work but you can compile the Lucid kernel and then install the packages.

http://blog.avirtualhome.com/2010/04/16/compile-and-run-the-ubuntu-lucid-kernel-on-ubuntu-karmic/

What does your menu.lst look like?

You said ping works, is that a ping to an IP or to a name?

Will this

dig cnn.com

resolve addresses on the machine that's not working?

For booting try this is in the shell.


root(hd0,1)
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
savedefault
boot

Yep it sounds like it.

Try the following in the grub shell:

cat /boot/grub/device.map

For me the result is:

(hd0) /dev/sda
(hd1) /dev/sdb

How about

cat /boot/grub/menu.lst

or

cat /grub/menu.lst

Ah Ok, I misread your post, thought you couldn't get in the root shell.

Just follow steps 6,7,8,9

In the grub shell, what is the result of:

cat /boot/grub.cfg

or

cat /grub.cfg

Try the following steps:


Boot up from Live CD
Open a terminal
sudo fdisk -l
run fsck for every device you see but not extended, or swap (I forgot)
Mount /dev/sda1 (root partition) on...

You're welcome

Please mark the thread as solved (in Thread tools I believe)

As you don't have the failsafe, here's the contents:


# xorg.conf.failsafe (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration...

When in the shell try:

linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
boot

If this boots open a terminal:

sudo update-grub2

As you already did an upgrade to Karmic, the files in the folders are updated as well, so I would say yes you can just copy them back.

Personally I would backup the directories after the fresh...

Start in recovery mode.

A menu will appear, I believe the option is called Drop to root.

When you are in terminal mode:

cd /etc/X11
mv xorg.conf xorg.conf.karen999
cp xorg.conf.failsafe...

I would backup the /etc/apache2 directory
it holds your conf, enabled mods, enabled sites.

If you run PHP also backup your /etc/php5 directory.

It seems gdm doesn't start automatically.

To check if you have the upstart configuration open a terminal

initctl list| grep gdm

You should see something like:

gdm start/running, process...