[Cialug] Ubuntu server name resolution!

[Tom Sellers]

I put the nameserver enty in the resolv.conf file and then immediately ran
the dist-upgrade command you gave me and it ran all the way through.  One
problem solved!  After it finished and I rebooted again however the
nameserver entry was gone and I have no name resolution again.

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Paul Gray <gray at cs.uni.edu> wrote:

> On 05/17/2016 03:30 PM, Tom Sellers wrote:
> > Thank you for your suggestion to remove network manager!  Is this
> something
> > that was added between versions .2 and .5?
>
> I don't keep track of the minutia of Ubuntu packages and sub-versions of
> packages.  You asked how to prevent your system from behaving badly -
> removing network-manager will stop network manager from clobbering your
> /etc/resolv.conf.
>
> > As for the upgrade advise, I didn't want to leave the LTS version I
> > currently run at present although I will consider it.
>
> You can dist-upgrade within a release.  dist-upgrade is different from
> "do-release-upgrade".
>
> Specifically from the man page:
>
> -------------
> dist-upgrade
>
>        in addition to performing the function of upgrade,
>        also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions
>        of packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and
>        it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the
>        expense of less important ones if necessary. So, dist-upgrade
>        command may remove some packages. The /etc/apt/sources.list file
>        contains a list of locations from which to retrieve desired package
>        files. See also apt_preferences(5) for a mechanism for overriding
>        the general settings for individual package
>
> --------------
>
> Suggestion: Plop your old drive in and give
>                 apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
>             a test.
>
> -Paul
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