[BlueOnyx:06725] Re: new build ISO shell based network issues?

[Roy Urick]

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. 

 

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. 

 

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.  

 

 

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. )

 

 

I think I might revert back to the prior iso and just spend some time with YUM just to be sure it is stable. 

 

 

From: blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it] On Behalf Of Michael Stauber
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:53 AM
To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List
Subject: [BlueOnyx:06714] Re: new build ISO shell based network issues?

 

Hi Roy,

> During the shell based setup wizard, I would constantly get the screen

> taken over every few minutes by the raid sync utility timing out and

> throwing an error, but eventually the drives sync'd ok.

Yeah, some background tasks sometime dump info onto the console. That can be a nuisance.

> I also noticed after exiting the shell setup by choosing "save and exit" I

> didn't see any services restarting. I recall that used to happen when using

> the shell based setup.

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.

> I cant troubleshoot my way out of a wet paper bag at a

> linux command line, especially when basic commands like ifconfig and init

> are removed

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:

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".

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.

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.

> Also several times during the shell based setup application the screen

> would switch to a white on black screen full of junk, Hebrew looking

> characters. (obviously not Hebrew, but it had the same types of shapes)

> after tabbing around and managing to get out of that screen, the screen

> change would cause a full refresh and be OK.

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. 

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.

-- 

With best regards

Michael Stauber


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