my system needs manual network ifup after boot

[Bob Gustafson]

My system (i686, scsi, ipv4) is not so happy at the moment.

yum update at the moment, but MAKEDEV may or may not be up2date
%pre message says it cannot install because of /devfs,
but bottom line message says 'Success' ??

Same messages with 'yum update dev'

Version number of either MAKEDEV or dev was 3.9.1-1.i386

When the boot finally ends and I log in, I needed to manually ifup the eth0

su
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup eth0

If I then go back to user and startx

exit
startx

My Gnome desktop comes up, but stays up and controllable for about a minute.

I was able to start Mozilla, and start creating a bug report, but then
after I had almost all of the text typed, all I could move was the mouse
cursor - everything else was frozen.

Fortunately the code behind the power button has been nicely massaged. A
single click will put the system into a graceful shutdown.


Hope this email will offer some clues.

BobG

[Bob Gustafson]

This is the detail on the MAKEDEV difficulties

[root@hoho2 ~]# yum update MAKEDEV
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - Development Tree
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
Dependencies resolved
I will do the following:
[update: MAKEDEV 3.9.1-1.i386]
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages
Running test transaction:
Test transaction complete, Success!
Cannot install the MAKEDEV package: mounted devfs detected.
error: %pre(MAKEDEV-3.9.1-1) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping MAKEDEV-3.9.1-1
Updated:  MAKEDEV 3.9.1-1.i386
Transaction(s) Complete
[root@hoho2 ~]#

BobG

> My system (i686, scsi, ipv4) is not so happy at the moment.
>
> yum update at the moment, but MAKEDEV may or may not be up2date
> %pre message says it cannot install because of /devfs,
> but bottom line message says 'Success' ??
>
> Same messages with 'yum update dev'
>
> Version number of either MAKEDEV or dev was 3.9.1-1.i386
>
> When the boot finally ends and I log in, I needed to manually ifup the eth0
>
> su
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup eth0
>
> If I then go back to user and startx
>
> exit
> startx
>
> My Gnome desktop comes up, but stays up and controllable for about a minute.
>
> I was able to start Mozilla, and start creating a bug report, but then
> after I had almost all of the text typed, all I could move was the mouse
> cursor - everything else was frozen.
>
> Fortunately the code behind the power button has been nicely massaged. A
> single click will put the system into a graceful shutdown.
>
>
> Hope this email will offer some clues.
>
> BobG
>
>
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[David Hollis]

On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 08:58 -0500, Bob Gustafson wrote:
>  This is the detail on the MAKEDEV difficulties
>  
>  [root@hoho2 ~]# yum update MAKEDEV
>  Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
>  Server: Fedora Core 2 - Development Tree
>  Finding updated packages
>  Downloading needed headers
>  Resolving dependencies
>  Dependencies resolved
>  I will do the following:
>  [update: MAKEDEV 3.9.1-1.i386]
>  Is this ok [y/N]: y
>  Downloading Packages
>  Running test transaction:
>  Test transaction complete, Success!
>  Cannot install the MAKEDEV package: mounted devfs detected.
>  error: %pre(MAKEDEV-3.9.1-1) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
>  error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping MAKEDEV-3.9.1-1
>  Updated:  MAKEDEV 3.9.1-1.i386
>  Transaction(s) Complete
>  [root@hoho2 ~]#
>   
Updating dev also produces this.  The problem is that the the preinstall
script is checking for anything mounted on /dev (thinking that would be
devfs).  Recently (not sure when exactly), /dev is now mounted as ramfs
so the install/upgrade of dev fails.

-- 
David T Hollis <dhollis(a)davehollis.com&gt;

Boot network sequence is strange - result: network is down

[Bob Gustafson]

When I booted (i686, scsi, ipv4) I noticed that

ntpd came up nicely, apparently connecting with a time server and doing its
thing - OKs on several lines

Then NetworkDaemon came up

Then network-scripts were run

Then I logged in and went to su

Note that network is down.

This happened after MAKEDEV update apparently was successful


date
Sat Aug 28 10:22:31 CDT 2004

[root@hoho2 user1]# netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface

[root@hoho2 user1]# /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup eth0

[root@hoho2 user1]# netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
192.168.49.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth0
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U         0 0          0 eth0
0.0.0.0         192.168.49.21   0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 eth0
[root@hoho2 user1]#


BobG

[Bob Gustafson]

The MAKEDEV problem eems to be fixed - I think I saw a successful update.

However, ifup still needs to be run after boot

[root@hoho2 user1]# date
Sat Aug 28 10:40:45 CDT 2004

[root@hoho2 user1]# yum update MAKEDEV
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 2 - Development Tree
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
No Packages Available for Update
No actions to take
[root@hoho2 user1]#

BobG


On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 10:38:58 -0400 David T Hollis wrote
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> On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 08:58 -0500, Bob Gustafson wrote:
> > This is the detail on the MAKEDEV difficulties
> >
> > [root@hoho2 ~]# yum update MAKEDEV
> > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> > Server: Fedora Core 2 - Development Tree
> > Finding updated packages
> > Downloading needed headers
> > Resolving dependencies
> > Dependencies resolved
> > I will do the following:
> > [update: MAKEDEV 3.9.1-1.i386]
> > Is this ok [y/N]: y
> > Downloading Packages
> > Running test transaction:
> > Test transaction complete, Success!
> > Cannot install the MAKEDEV package: mounted devfs detected.
> > error: %pre(MAKEDEV-3.9.1-1) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
> > error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping MAKEDEV-3.9.1-1
> > Updated:  MAKEDEV 3.9.1-1.i386
> > Transaction(s) Complete
> > [root@hoho2 ~]#
> >
> Updating dev also produces this.  The problem is that the the preinstall
> script is checking for anything mounted on /dev (thinking that would be
> devfs).  Recently (not sure when exactly), /dev is now mounted as ramfs
> so the install/upgrade of dev fails.
>
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[David Hollis]

On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 10:49 -0500, Bob Gustafson wrote:
>  The MAKEDEV problem eems to be fixed - I think I saw a successful
> update.
>  
>  However, ifup still needs to be run after boot
>  
>  [root@hoho2 user1]# date
>  Sat Aug 28 10:40:45 CDT 2004
>  
>  [root@hoho2 user1]# yum update MAKEDEV Gathering header information
>   file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core 2 - Development Tree
>   Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers No Packages
>   Available for Update No actions to take [root@hoho2 user1]# 
What is making you think that the problem with your Ethernet device is tied to MAKEDEV? 
It would be much more likely to be initscripts and/or iputils.  No files are created/used
in /dev for Ethernet devices (only tun devices and the like have a device node).  For
reference, here's my levels of these packages (I don't even have MAKEDEV installed
any longer since only raidutils needed on my system so I pulled it as well as raidutils):

iputils-20020927-16
initscripts-7.73-1
kernel-2.6.8-1.526
kernel-2.6.8-1.532

-- 
David T Hollis <dhollis(a)davehollis.com&gt;