Upgraded F16->F17: no internet connection

[meyer]

Hi,

I just upgraded on my laptop from F16 to F17 through the Fedora DVD.

Now I cannot access the internet, neither trough wifi nor through cable. Everything else seems fine until now.

I have seen that my Fedora installation still uses the F16 kernel.

Is that the problem? Should I download and install a F17 kernel? But how could I do this without Internet?

Please help me. Thanks

(Maybe the problem has to do with that Fedora 17 has some new changes in the sbin directory structure? When I write dhclient wlan0, it says: error while loading shared libraries: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory. When I write service network start, it does not work (it just hangs on the command line))
(The internet at home works on another computer running another OS).

[PabloTwo]

Have you read the known bugs for doing a F16>F17 upgrade? The kernel issue is discussed there. I don't know about your "no-internet" issue.
Are you actually using "network" instead of the default "NetworkManager"? If you're actually using NetworkManager, then try:

# systemctl restart NetworkManager.service

[meyer]

Originally Posted by PabloTwo

Have you read the known bugs for doing a F16>F17 upgrade? The kernel issue is discussed there. I don't know about your "no-internet" issue.
Are you actually using "network" instead of the default "NetworkManager"? If you're actually using NetworkManager, then try:

# systemctl restart NetworkManager.service

Thank you. I use the default NetworkManager, and executing the command above does not give any message back, and the internet is still not working.

---------- Post added at 05:30 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:14 PM ----------

Executing

ifdown em1
ifup em1
dhclient em1

gives these messages:

ifdown em1:
Error: Device em1 (/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0) disconnecting failed: This device is not active

ifup em1 :
**process 3220: WARNING: async_got_type: could not read properties for /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/196 MEthod Get with signature ss on interface "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" doesn't exist

and it hangs until I hit CTRL-C.

dhclient em1:
error while loading shared libraries libdns-export.so.81 cannot open shared oject file no such file or directory

[PabloTwo]

I'm not a network expert by any means. On F16:

BASH:~/-> locate libdns-export.so.81
/usr/lib64/libdns-export.so.81
/usr/lib64/libdns-export.so.81.6.1
BASH:~/-> rpm -qf /usr/lib64/libdns-export.so.81
bind-libs-lite-9.8.3-4.P3.fc16.x86_64

The rpm query above is telling me that /usr/lib64/libdns-export.so.81 is installed by package bind-libs-lite.
Check that you have that package installed and those libs. "/usr/lib/" if you're using 32 bit Fedora.

[meyer]

Thanks. The locate command gives no output.

The command rpm -qf /usr/lib64/....

says:
error file /usr/lib64/libdns-export.so.81: no such file or directory

[PabloTwo]

The locate command searches a database file, not the actual disk contents. To create a current, up to date database file for locate to use, use this command, as root:

updatedb

And what does the following command give you?

rpm -q bind-libs-lite

Of course, it is possible those libs are now provided in a different package in F17 than they are in F16, though that doesn't happen very often.

[meyer]

Thanks.

rpm -q bind-libs-lite:
bind-libs-lite-9.9.0-4.fc17.x86-64

I am waiting for updatedb to finish.

updatedb has finished, and
locate libdns-export.so.81
still gives no output.

The problem could be that libdns-export.so.81 is a FC16 library?

Other commands I tried:

rpm -qa "*kernel*" only shows with FC17 these entries (the rest is FC16)
abrt-addon-kerneloops-2.0.10-3.fc17.x86-64
libreport-plugin-kerneloops-2.0.10-3.fc17.x86-64

uname -r
3.4.11-1.fc16.x86-64

[PabloTwo]

I just checked that version of bind-libs-lite on koji and the files it installs are:

/usr/lib64/libdns-export.so.93
/usr/lib64/libdns-export.so.93.1.0
/usr/lib64/libirs-export.so.90
/usr/lib64/libirs-export.so.90.0.0
/usr/lib64/libisc-export.so.90	23
/usr/lib64/libisc-export.so.90.1.0
/usr/lib64/libisccfg-export.so.90
/usr/lib64/libisccfg-export.so.90.0.1

So it looks like dhclient is searching for the wrong version of the lib. Try running this as root and see if it helps:

ldconfig

[meyer]

ldconfig executes without any output.

The Interent still does not work, and locate libdns-export.so.81 still has no output.

Other command I tried:
rpm -q libdns-export.so.81
package libdns-export.so.81 is not installed

[PabloTwo]

It's plain to see now that you do not have a libdns-export.so.81 file (which would be a symbolic link file). You will get results with:

locate libdns-export.so

Which will show you 2 files in the list of files I just posted.
The "rpm -q" command requires an rpm package name, not a file name.
"man rpm"

---------- Post added at 02:36 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:30 PM ----------

ldconfig executes without any output.

Yes, that's the expected behavior. It's just updating the database file.
Have you tried bringing up device em1 again after running the ldconfig command?
Is em1 your only network device?

ip link

[meyer]

There is em1, wlan0 and lo.

ip link shows
1: lo....
2: em1: ...
3: wlan0:.....


And

ifdown em1
ifup em1
dhclient em1

has the same output as before

And:
ifup wlan0
/sbin/ifup configuration for wlan0 not found

[mikee]

I ran into this when I did the upgrade on my laptop.

I plugged in a twisted pair cable, andI set up a static IP address rather than doing dhcp, and then did the yum distrosync so it would finish the job.

[iandunn]

I had the same problem, and doing `yum update dhclient` fixed it.

But, before I could do that, I had to resolve a bunch of yum errors. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=878546 for the details on fixing that.