Re: Sarge box network connection broken
Ken Heard wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
>
>>> What happens when you run "/etc/init.d/networking restart"?
>>>
>
> Returned:
>
> Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter.
> Reconfiguring network interfaces...Failed to bring up eth0.
> done.
>
> Then a series of messages scrolled down the screen, similar, maybe
> identical to what appears as part of the boot-up.
>
> One line which I caught seemed to read:
>
> tried to execve (/etc/dhclient -script, ...): Permission denied
>
> followed by several attempts to connect with the network, all of which
> failed.
>
> Since these two problems emerged, the syslog has always shown the
> following:
>
> Feb 8 09:04:24 localhost kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xa000,
> 00:50:ba:4f:b1:24, IRQ 169
> Feb 8 09:04:24 localhost kernel: eth0: Identified 8139 chip type
> 'RTL-8139C'
>
> whereupon the boot-up continued, trying unsuccessfully to connect to the
> network, including a line with execve in it, and always ending with
> these last two lines:
>
> Feb 8 09:04:41 localhost kdm_greet[2943]: Can't open default user face
> Feb 8 09:04:47 localhost kdm: :0[2948]: Session
> "/etc/kde3/kdm/Xsession" execution failed: Permission denied
>
Hmm; two "Permission denied" errors. Very odd. In "/etc/password", is
your root user defined as 0,0? What's the result of running "ls -lhn
/etc/dhclient-script" and "ls -lhn /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsession"?
> westk[@westk03]:/home/westk> ls -lhn /etc/dhclient-script
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 6.6K 2006-12-04 10:07 /etc/dhclient-script
>
> westk[@westk03]:/home/westk> ls -lhn /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsession
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 1.4K 2006-03-28 23:13 /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsession
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Kent West
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