So I have a rather odd issue, I can ping my machine and log onto it remotely but not surf the internet , also I have no connections showing under my “Network Connections” , It will allow me to select say “ethernet” when adding a new connection but from then on all options are greyed out.
I cannot run “ifconfig” as it says I have insuffcient priviledges yet my account type is Administrator.
Help most gratefully appreciated.
Please try to use sudo as in this example
sudo ifconfig
You will be prompted for your password … NOTE no characters will appear as you type
post back results please
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I cannot run “ifconfig” as it says I have insuffcient priviledges yet my account type is Administrator.
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Is your account the original one created during installation?
Yes it is, it also loses network settings after a reboot.
Do a power off then a cold boot.
During startup, press ESC to get to get to GRUB.
Go to "Advanced options for Ubuntu" or something like that.
Select the last "Recovery mode" boot option starting from the top.
At the menu, select "root"
Run these commands fast:
mount -o remount,rw /
adduser recov # for password use something short like "aaa" and leave the other settings blank (enter-enter-enter)
adduser recov sudo
sync
init 6
Then after reboot log into the "recov" account, it should have admin access.
Edit: note that the reason I'm telling you to do these commands "fast" is because of this bug: