I tried to install electric sheep last week. And it wasn’t working, so I assumed that I was doing something wrong, since I remembered it being really simple, and nothing I was doing worked. So a few minutes ago, I asked Ken what you do to install electric sheep. And he told me. And I was doing it right. (I even just used the up arrow in terminal to go to the command I used last week.) So he looks at it, and I look at it, and he pokes around a little bit… And he says to me “Well evidently Warty doesn’t have it.” “But that’s Hoary.” “No it isn’t, this says Warty.”
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“I upgraded it.” “What?”
So now I’m thinking I did that wrong too, but he says again what you’re supposed to type, and I did exactly that last time. I used the up arrow again, and the commands were all still there. Ken suggested that perhaps I didn’t save. I thought about it for a minute… I asked him how you save in gedit, and he said he wasn’t sure. So i opened it.
I had forgotten that it’s an actual text editor. There’s a save button. And if you try to close out of it without saving, it protests.
Somehow this box reverted itself to Warty.
So…………
Ken ran the upgrade again. I watched it happen. Looked exactly like it did last week. Ken pointed out that it can’t just revert; it downloads over a thousand packages, they can’t just disappear. But I watched them download myself.
Then, I rebooted. And it hung. Again.
I tried booting into recovery mode and when it got to the network configuration, it gave the error:
eth0: -- ERROR --
Class: Hardware failure
Nr: 0xd9
Msg: FATAL: SKGeStopPort() does not terminate (Tx)
eth0: Port A failed.
I started trying anything and everything. I disabled the onboard NIC in the bios. Then I was at least able to skip network configuration during boot with ctrl+c. But there was no network connection. I rebooted into an older kernel. Still nothing.
We tried different PCI express settings in the bios to see if that might have been part of the problem. Then, we started changing random settings just to see what would happen. We have no idea what some of them are. Nothing worked.
This has taken all day. Time to go home.