Question
Why is networking dead after a soft reboot?
So I just ran "reboot now" as root on an Ubuntu 12 VM (I'd installed/updated some packages and it said reboot required).
I waited a while but the machine was dead to the outside world. Not contactable via SSH or HTTP (80). I logged in via the console and:
ps aux | grep nginx
Yep. It's running
ps aux | ssh
Yep. All ok.
curl -i http://www.google.com/
Nothing! Hmmm...
ifconfig
The interface appears to be up.
/etc/init.d/networking restart
Ok, but still no connectivity.
Power cycled via the Droplet admin thing and everything's back to normal.
Any idea what's going on there?
This is a new VM with only a handful of packages installed - nothing outlandish and no config changes to do with networking at all. Any idea what's going on?
Cheers,
Kane
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@kamaln, weird?! That happens quite a bit… I’m on Ubuntu 14.04 and just did a restart and absolutely no network connections. I could log in with the console, though.
I used
init 6to reboot, which would certainly be very close to ashutdown now.The procedure mentioned below worked though:
init 0and the restart from digitalocean.