Problem: Ubuntu Karmic booting with no runlevel, including GDM and GNOME

[illusion88]

Just something to add to this being as the thread is fairly recent. I spent hours wondering why half my services and init scripts weren't coming up after a clean install of Ubuntu 10.04. I come across this thread and things finally start to make sense.

The difference being my /etc/network/interfaces file already has the loop back adapter defined (and I'm on Lucid 10.04), yet I'm still seeing 'unknown' when I check the run level.

I found a solution by searching Google which suggested changing /etc/init/rc-sysinit.conf:

"start on filesystem and net-device-up IFACE=lo" -> IFACE=eth0

This doesn't strike me as a clean way of fixing this problem and by no means does it make sense if the OP is anything to go by (eth0 isn't defined in /etc/network/interfaces, lo is) yet changing this option fixed it.

Maybe this will help someone else who doesn't get round the issue by adding the loop back adapter to the interfaces file.

Good luck.

[maddox]

Just something to add to this being as the thread is fairly recent. I spent hours wondering why half my services and init scripts weren't coming up after a clean install of Ubuntu 10.04. I come across this thread and things finally start to make sense.

The difference being my /etc/network/interfaces file already has the loop back adapter defined (and I'm on Lucid 10.04), yet I'm still seeing 'unknown' when I check the run level.

I found a solution by searching Google which suggested changing /etc/init/rc-sysinit.conf:

"start on filesystem and net-device-up IFACE=lo" -> IFACE=eth0

This doesn't strike me as a clean way of fixing this problem and by no means does it make sense if the OP is anything to go by (eth0 isn't defined in /etc/network/interfaces, lo is) yet changing this option fixed it.

Maybe this will help someone else who doesn't get round the issue by adding the loop back adapter to the interfaces file.

Good luck.

THAAAAAAAANKS A LOT!!!!

For the first time in a couple of months i got the runlevel set at startup (and all the startup scripts at /etc/init.d/)without typing " sudo telinit 2"

I had this problem since one of the last Karmic updates and now on a fresh install of Lucid!


by the way, my /etc/network/interfaces file is configured to static ip as this:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.100
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.254


Again, thanks for your post

[hellslinger]

Just something to add to this being as the thread is fairly recent. I spent hours wondering why half my services and init scripts weren't coming up after a clean install of Ubuntu 10.04. I come across this thread and things finally start to make sense.

The difference being my /etc/network/interfaces file already has the loop back adapter defined (and I'm on Lucid 10.04), yet I'm still seeing 'unknown' when I check the run level.

I found a solution by searching Google which suggested changing /etc/init/rc-sysinit.conf:

"start on filesystem and net-device-up IFACE=lo" -> IFACE=eth0

This doesn't strike me as a clean way of fixing this problem and by no means does it make sense if the OP is anything to go by (eth0 isn't defined in /etc/network/interfaces, lo is) yet changing this option fixed it.

Maybe this will help someone else who doesn't get round the issue by adding the loop back adapter to the interfaces file.

Good luck.

This worked for me too. Thank you immensely. Why does this fix things? How did anyone ever discover that this was the solution? I'm actually interested in knowing...

Thanks again.