Is this an apt-get issue or network issue?
- by zharvey
I just installed my first Ubuntu server (12.04) instance and immediately am noticing a few things:
Running apt-get install or update fails (see below)
Running ifconfig produces peculiar IP addresses starting with 10.x.x.x and my router does not see the server at all in its "Attached Devices" page (its a consumer grade Netgear)
When I run apt-get I get 50+ of the following errors:
Failed to fetch <some-http-url. Temporary failure resolving <blah.ubuntu.com
I read up on this error for 12.04, and found some similar posts on this forum and on serverfault that recommended going into /etc/resolv.conf and adding an entry:
nameserver 8.8.8.8
To my surprise, I found that /etc/resolve.conf was a symlink pointing to somewhere else and I had to delete it first, then create a new one with the entry indicated above.
I restarted the server and tried running apt-get again: same results.
How do I start diagnosing the problem (I'm a relatively new Linux/Ubuntu user)?
Additional details that may help:
This is actually a virtual machine running as a VirtualBox guest OS
The physical host that is running this VM is my laptop which has a wireless connection; I'm wondering if (somehow) the laptop is getting the network wirelessly, but perhaps either the VBox VM and/or the Ubuntu server OS isn't configured for wireless and so nothing is "getting through"?
Thanks in advance for any pointers!
Edit:
Here is a snapshot of my VM's Network settings (only Adapter 1 has any information populating its fields, so I assume my VM has only 1 adapter):
Here is the output when I run ifconfig from the terminal:
And here is the output when I run route from the terminal:
Running ping google.com:
