RE: fc2 - network restart fails - e1000 / Extreme Network Switch
by Joe Robertson
Kenneth Benson wrote:
What type of cable are you using...Cat5, Cat5e or Cat 6? Cat 5e
is the minimum
recommended for gigabit and Cat 6 is preferred. Standard Cat 5
is iffy at that speed.
My cables are 10' Cat 6 - I've tested on several machines /
cables - including
Cat 5e.
Joe
20 years
RE: fc2 - network restart fails - e1000 / Extreme Network Switch
by Kenneth Benson
What type of cable are you using...Cat5, Cat5e or Cat 6? Cat 5e is the
minimum
recommended for gigabit and Cat 6 is preferred. Standard Cat 5 is iffy at
that speed.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Robertson [mailto:jrobertson@convera.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 3:46 PM
> To: fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com
> Subject: fc2 - network restart fails - e1000 / Extreme Network Switch
>
>
> I'm using machines with Intel GB NIC (Supermicro 6013P-T and
> Dell 1600sc - both with e1000 drivers). The OS is fc2 release
> (I've tried updating the kernel to 2.6.6-1-535 and saw the
> same symptoms).
>
> If I connect to an Extreme Network GB Switch (summit 400-48t)
> and issue a "service network restart" command, it works every
> other time (and fails every other time) - consistently.
> When it fails, I get the following message: "Determining ip
> information for eth0... failed: no link present. Check cable?"
>
> If I do a sequence of "service network stop" and "service network
> start", it works every time.
>
> I have not seen this with a Netgear unmanaged switch (haven't
> tried others).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Joe Robertson
>
>
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RE: FC2 hangs on soft reboot
by Joe Robertson
On Monday, June 21, 2004 9:16 AM Hannes Mayer wrote:
> Hi Joe!
>
> Joe Robertson wrote:
> > On Sunday, June 20, 2004 1:22 PM, Hannes Mayer wrote
> >>Joe,
> >>
> >>which kernel do you use ?
> >
> > I'm using the released version - 2.6.5-1.358
>
> Try upgrading to 2.6.6-1.435 and see if the problem is still there...
>
I upgraded to 2.6.6-1.435. The soft reboot hang appears to have
gone away. This is great news! I had previously tried upgrading
to the 2.6.6-1.427 kernel with no such luck.
This resolves the worst of the problems. However, I'd still like
to know how to force the system to use the libata library as
recommended by Silicon Image (i.e. refers to drives as /dev/sdx
rather than /dev/hdx).
Thanks,
Joe Robertson
20 years
fc2 - network restart fails - e1000 / Extreme Network Switch
by Joe Robertson
I'm using machines with Intel GB NIC (Supermicro 6013P-T and
Dell 1600sc - both with e1000 drivers). The OS is fc2 release
(I've tried updating the kernel to 2.6.6-1-535 and saw the
same symptoms).
If I connect to an Extreme Network GB Switch (summit 400-48t)
and issue a "service network restart" command, it works every
other time (and fails every other time) - consistently.
When it fails, I get the following message: "Determining ip
information for eth0... failed: no link present. Check cable?"
If I do a sequence of "service network stop" and "service network
start", it works every time.
I have not seen this with a Netgear unmanaged switch (haven't
tried others).
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Joe Robertson
20 years
RE: FC2 hangs on soft reboot
by Joe Robertson
On Sunday, June 20, 2004 1:22 PM, Hannes Mayer wrote
>
> Joe,
>
> which kernel do you use ?
I'm using the released version - 2.6.5-1.358
> When I read the subject line, the problem with the older 2.6
> kernel came to my mind, where the kernel sent a standby
> signal to the harddrives and some harddrives interpreted this
> as shutdown. When rebooting the BIOS didn't spin up the
> drives and the system didn't boot. This might be unrelated -
> just my 2 eurocents ;-)
>
I forgot to mention that if I do a ctl-alt-del at the point
where it hangs, it will reboot successfully. Normally I'd
simply ignore this but I'm planning a very large deployment
in a remote location so I can't tolerate this behavior.
Also, if I configure the system with a single CPU and disable
hyperthreading, it reboots just fine with a soft reboot.
If I add a second CPU or enable hyperthreading, it fails on
reboot.
> Cheers,
> Hannes.
>
>
Thanks,
Joe
20 years
FC2 hangs on soft reboot
by Joe Robertson
I am running Fedora Core 2 (final release) on a Supermicro 6013P-T.
If I do a "shutdown -r now" or ctl-alt-del to cause a reboot,
the system reboots but hangs when it tries to read the boot sector.
I have not noticed any other issues related to reading / writing
data to the hard drives.
This has sil-3112A SATA hard drive controllers. I have confirmed
that the problem goes away if I disable the Silicon Image controllers
and use a Promise board. Engineers at Silicon Image are convinced that
the incorrect driver is actually being loaded, another driver is
grabbing the hardware before sata_sil has a chance to, or even worse
two drivers are attempting to grab the same hardware.
The device name used to access the hard drives is /dev/hdx rather than
/dev/sdx as it should be (according to Silicon Image).
They suggested adding hdx=noprobe for all drives in grub.conf. I tried
that
but the system simply wouldn't boot. In /etc/modeprobe.conf, there is
an
entry "alias scsi_hostadapter sata_sil" which is correct.
Has anyone run into this before?
Is there another way to ensure the correct driver is being used?
The second suggestion from Silicon Image is "remove the PCI IDs
from drivers/ide/pci/siimage.c, which will ensure that sata_sil is the
only driver attempting to use the hardware and then recompile."
I've figured out how to modify the siimage.c file and build a new
kernel source rpm file. However, I have not yet figured out how to
go to the next step and build a new set of kernel rpm files. I need
to be able to package this so I can put the corrected version back into
my installation tree that I use for NFS inatalls.
Can anyone help with instructions or where to find instructions on
building and packaging a kernel?
Thanks,
Joe Robertson
20 years
Connection problem - more information
by Paul F. Johnson
Hi,
On a spare drive, I did a vanilla install of FC2. All is happy and well
(except for my mouse not working). No problems with networking or anything
like that.
This leads me to suspect that one of the rawhide updates has screwed my
system which I was unaware of as I've not done a reset in ages.
A few odd things have happened though
/sbin/ifdown eth0 is fine
/sbin/ifup eth0 gives this
Determining IP information for device eth0 ... SIOCADDRT file exists
Done
RTNETLINK reports : Invalid argument
/sbin/route -n looks okay
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.2.0 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
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
And finally
/sbin/mii-tool
eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok
Any ideas of what could have gone wrong or how to fix this problem will be
met with a tankard or two of fine headed, nut brown ale (if you're in or
around Merseyside or Manchester, UK). For those overseas, I'll get you a pint
or two at some point :-)
TTFN
Paul
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20 years
Connection problems
by Paul F. Johnson
Hi,
I currently get my broadband through Blueyonder in the UK. This goes from the cable modem into my router which then distributes around the house.
Since about 11pm on Thursday, I've had connection problems on the linux boxes (this email is via webmail on my RISC PC - which shows by virtue of being able to connect to my webmail account, there is nothing wrong with the router).
I'm getting this
If I use a terminal window and type
ping ahnews.music.salford.ac.uk
This appears
PING ahnews.music.salford.ac.uk (146.87.55.6) 56(84) bytes of data
>From 192.168.2.103 icmp_seq=0 Destination host unreachable
And that's it. The name has been correctly resolved, but nothing else is happening.
I've tried turning off IPV6, moving down a kernel version or two (tried .411 and .422 (I think) with no difference), removed the firewall and done a number of resets. No difference.
The wife is really getting at me over this, so any advice would be helpful.
It may be of some use, but if I alter the network settings using neat and try to reactivate, I get an error SIOADDRT (file already exists). This may have something to do with it, but I doubt it.
Any suggestions as to a remedy or which log file to search to see if I can spot the problem would be greatly appreciated. It's driving me nuts not being able to use my Linux machines online!!!!
TTFN
Paul
20 years
ACPI Testing
by D. D. Brierton
I'm posting this here as opposed to fedora-list as this is a call to
arms for any and all of us Fedora users who are trying to get ACPI to
work on their laptops. ACPI needs testing, and lots of feedback on what
is working and what isn't. Whilst it is true that FC has ACPI enabled by
default and we we are therefore in the perfect situation to generate
lots of useful feedback which can be passed on to the developers, I
don't think that anyone thinks that ACPI is 100% usable as is. If anyone
thinks that this list is not the appropriate forum for this discussion
then I am happy to move it to another (maybe the ACPI mailing list?) but
only when we have gathered together a sufficient number of testers.
However, I will say that my primary motivation is to galvanise a group
of testers into action specifically to help with ACPI in Fedora who are
willing to download and try out packages from Rawhide and who want to
contribute whatever scripts they have so that they might one day end up
either in Fedora Core or Fedora Extras.
Please reply to this thread with your experiences, good or bad.
=====================================================================
Some additional information:
My Hardware (for reference):
Dell Inspiron 8200, NVidia GeForce 440GO (with 64MB VRAM), 1GB RAM, BIOS
A10 (an update to A11 is available but I haven't installed it yet).
Intersil Prism 2 Wi-Fi PCMCIA card. USB mouse and printer. FireWire
external hard drive.
My software:
Currently using nv driver, but keen to use nvidia driver when an FC2
compatible driver comes out.
My experience:
Precious little with power management until this week! I've had this
laptop for nearly two years now, and it's proved an excellent Linux
machine -- everything except the winmodem worked out of the box. But
when I installed Linux on it two years ago I looked into power
management, read about ACPI not being supported yet, and read about all
the hoops you had to jump trough to get APM suspend to work (patching
NVidia drivers, creating a special s2d partition) and thought to myself
"forget it, I'll just wait until the 2.6 kernel comes out". Since
installing FC2 I've spent a good deal of this week trying to learn what
I can. Google turns up lots, and tldp.org has these:
ACPI-HOWTO
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/ACPI-HOWTO/index.html
Battery-Powered-HOWTO
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Battery-Powered/index.html
Laptop-HOWTO
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Laptop-HOWTO.html
Also there is lots of information at http://acpi.sourceforge.net/.
However, apart from the latter site, quite a lot of the information
available (especially for my laptop, given that it is two years old) is
quite out of date given what ships in FC2.
=====================================================================
Some questions:
1. At the moment, both APM and ACPI start at boot. I didn't configure it
this way. This is a clean install of FC2 and this is what anaconda set
up. It seems that both are started as services, although whilst apmd
returns OK at boot it seems somewhat silent on its status:
# chkconfig --list acpid
acpid 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
# chkconfig --list apmd
apmd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
# service acpid status
acpid (pid 2248) is running...
# service apmd status
#
Do I actually want both running at the same time? I assume that for
testing purposes I should disable APM, but I'd like to hear from someone
who knows what he's talking about.
2. I had read that 2.6 supports suspending to disk, and that it uses
swap space for that and so I ensured that my swap partition is greater
than the size of my RAM + VRAM. Is that correct?
3. Does FC2 automatically go into "laptop" mode when I pull out the
power cord, or do I have to do something manually? (I can't find now
where I read about this, but I believe "laptop" mode is something new in
the 2.6 kernel which preserves battery life by slowing the CPU speed and
reducing disk activity.)
=====================================================================
Personal (ideal world) goal for ACPI:
What I guess I'd like ideally would be for both suspend to ram and
suspend to disk to work (whether I'm in X or not), for closing and
opening the lid of the laptop to trigger suspending to ram and resuming
from ram, and for suspend to disk to happen automatically when battery
level become critically low.
Best, Darren
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=====================================================================
20 years
ERROR: libstdc++ symbolic link
by TGS
I am seeing this error since update to the latest.
/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib//libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 is not a symbolic link
Listing followes:
root @ triton 1 > ls -l /usr/lib/libstdc++*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 258296 May 20 11:55
/usr/lib/libstdc++-2-libc6.1-1-2.9.0.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Mar 13 2003
/usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 -> libstdc++-2-libc6.1-1-2.9.0.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 261952 May 20 11:55
/usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Mar 13 2003 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.7.2 ->
libstdc++.so.2.7.2.8
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 222800 May 20 11:55 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.7.2.8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Mar 13 2003 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8 ->
libstdc++.so.2.8.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 251480 May 20 11:55 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.8.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Mar 13 2003 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.9 ->
libstdc++.so.2.9.dummy
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3444 May 20 11:55 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.9.dummy
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 13 01:49 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 ->
libstdc++.so.5.0.5
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 742956 May 20 11:55 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 18 15:52 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 ->
libstdc++.so.6.0.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 837364 Jun 14 10:49 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.1
20 years