KDE 4.7 Network gone and USB problems [Solved]

[dunsurfin]

Dell studio 17 running SL 6 x86 K fully updated and with kernel 3.
Halfway through the installation of today's big KDE upgrade the wireless stopped working. The wifi light on the laptop stayed on but there was a report of the wlan interface being broken - either because something wasn't installed or something wasn't removed (it was no more specific than that). The upgrade continued without any problem but a reboot shows the same problem. I haven't got that machine running at the moment so have no logs yet. Anyone else have this problem?

Edit:
Some more information. When logging in I get this error message:
"Warning: Cannot open consolekit session: unable to open session: process /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper signal 6"
This, I think, causes an additional problem; I can't mount a thumb drive and can't mount my "C" drive so am not having much success in getting the logs transferred to this machine.

[James_AC]

Same here Network Manager doesn't work

Can't enable networking either through the manager.
I can however enable wifi over wireless, so it seems to be related to the network manager itself.

[dunsurfin]

Not sure now if this should be in this shed or some other one as I've found it's it's not a KDE problem - the same problems exist whatever I try to boot into and gnome just goes into a login loop. I managed to get the logs with a trusty livedisc but even plugging the machine directly to my router gives nothing. A message comes up "No network interface". A look at the entropy log shows no errors or warnings. I also have kdm.log, lspci, lsusb, dmesg and .xsession-errors. I shall not post them all unless someone asks for them. The lsusb doesn't agree with what I know to be on the machine.
I hope there's something I can do as, with no connection, it will mean a reinstall and that would be a shame. Sadly, I don't know where to start.
My SL 6 amd64 K updated with no problem. I'm not going to risk my main machine (x86) until I know what the problem is.

[joost]

dbus-glib has been broken on x86 in the sabayonlinux.org repository. (not on sabayon-weekly)

You could try this:

Download the package here http://packages.sabayon.org/show/dbus-g ... -show-what

Put it on USB copy it to the other PC and then:

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equo install dev-libs-dbus-glib-0.94-r1~0.tbz2

Or try to alternatively enable the wired network:

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/etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop
/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start


Then run equo update && equo upgrade

[dunsurfin]

Thanks joost. I've downloaded and will give that a go later this evening.

[dunsurfin]

The easiest way didn't work but the copy and local install worked perfectly. Thank you, I've learned something else!