Steve Morris <samorris@(protected):

> I have just finished a cooker update and encountered the X Server
> missing modules issue. Following Paulos instructions I was able to
> reinstall the packages needed to fix the problem, from the current
> mirror, ie: dns resolution was working fine. Having reinstalled the
> packages I rebooted the system to see if I could get into kdm and
> hence kde3 (kde4 still won't start, but need to go to a tty session to
> get the messages) which I was able to do. But when I started
> Thunderbird I was not able to connect to my isp's mail server because
> of a dns failure. I had disconnect and reconnect the network to get
> the dns back again. Why did it work under tty but not under X?

Please give more info when you report such failures.
For example the content of /etc/resolv.conf, and of
/var/run/resolvconf/interface/*

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