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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I was just doing SU and then running “setup” like I remember from my cobalt days, and possibly even BQ. Hard to say since its been years since I last deployed one of these boxes when it last worked. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You’d think that if “setup” no longer works properly as Chris suggested, it shouldn’t be there. Or if it needed to be around it would cause the proper setup program to kick off. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>What I meant by ifconfig and init “missing” was that they don’t work from the command line. I didn’t realize I had to execute the ifconfig using the whole path. I don’t recall init ever worked from the terminal for shutting down/rebooting on these servers since the Raq4 days, and always found it annoying when I was in a terminal session and wanted to reboot the box I’d have to fire up the GUI and do it there. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Also I might be doing something wrong, but Squirrelmail also doesn’t appear to be configured properly out of the box either. (surfing to /webmail displays a text error about it not being setup yet. )<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I think I might revert back to the prior iso and just spend some time with YUM just to be sure it is stable. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> blueonyx-bounces@blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces@blueonyx.it] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Michael Stauber<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:53 AM<br><b>To:</b> BlueOnyx General Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> [BlueOnyx:06714] Re: new build ISO shell based network issues?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hi Roy,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-paragraph-type:empty;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>> During the shell based setup wizard, I would constantly get the screen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>> taken over every few minutes by the raid sync utility timing out and<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>> throwing an error, but eventually the drives sync'd ok.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-paragraph-type:empty;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Yeah, some background tasks sometime dump info onto the console. That can be a nuisance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>> I also noticed after exiting the shell setup by choosing "save and exit" I<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>> didn't see any services restarting. I recall that used to happen when using<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>> the shell based setup.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-paragraph-type:empty;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Oh yes. When you finish the initial setup or when you are using /root/network_settings.sh, then the network and relevant services will be restarted. If *that* didn't happen on your end, then something is really wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-paragraph-type:empty;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>> I cant troubleshoot my way out of a wet paper bag at a<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>> linux command line, especially when basic commands like ifconfig and init<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>> are removed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-paragraph-type:empty;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Errr ... just to clarify: You say "ifconfig" and "init" aren't present? If so, your box wouldn't boot up or take any network settings at all. I think that part of your troubles is a handling issue:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-paragraph-type:empty;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>When you login as "admin" and then "su" to gain root access, the /sbin directory isn't part of your path. So you need to specify the full path to the commands from /sbin if you need any of those. Like "/sbin/ifconfig" or "/sbin/init".<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-paragraph-type:empty;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>If you're on the local console anyway, login directly as "root" to get around that issue. If you login as "admin" (like you have to when you use SSH for example) and need to "su", use "su -" instead. The minus at the end will make sure that /sbin is added to your path, too.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-paragraph-type:empty;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Like said: That part may have been a handling issue, but your box not taking network settings or services not restarting after the setup scripts of course has nothing to do with that. There sure is something else wrong with the box.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-paragraph-type:empty;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>> Also several times during the shell based setup application the screen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>> would switch to a white on black screen full of junk, Hebrew looking<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>> characters. (obviously not Hebrew, but it had the same types of shapes)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>> after tabbing around and managing to get out of that screen, the screen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>> change would cause a full refresh and be OK.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-paragraph-type:empty;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>That's really weird. Roy, I hate to say it, but do another OS restore on that box and start over. It could be that one (or more) RPMs off the CD didn't install correctly. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-paragraph-type:empty;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Maybe the ISO image was corrupt, maybe the CD-ROM had troubles reading some parts of the CD, so I'd even suggest to go as far as to re-download the ISO and to burn it again - just to be sure.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-paragraph-type:empty;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>-- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>With best regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;-qt-paragraph-type:empty;-qt-block-indent:0;-qt-user-state:0'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Michael Stauber<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><br>
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