I got my system back. It was also suffering from network being toasted (ipmasq starts up and fences system). Restarting ipmasq after the interfaces are provisioned (by hand) allows networking to work again. Network-Manager applet is a piece of crap and ping not permitted msgs are caused by ipmasq starting up and assuming eth0 and eth1 are internal not external. Not obvious esp when all your user & groups are screwed up in the first place.
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I got my system back. It was also suffering from network being toasted (ipmasq starts up and fences system). Restarting ipmasq after the interfaces are provisioned (by hand) allows networking to work again. Network-Manager applet is a piece of crap and ping not permitted msgs are caused by ipmasq starting up and assuming eth0 and eth1 are internal not external. Not obvious esp when all your user & groups are screwed up in the first place. ubuntuforums. org/showthread. php?t=1118878)
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