Re: Network connections breaking after bootup
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 03:28, Mumia W.. wrote:
> I suggest that you dedicate a runlevel, say 3, to debugging this
> problem. For RL (runlevel) 3, disable as many services as
> possible--making it almost the same as RL 1; then re-enable only those
> services that get you basic network connectivity. Note the configuration.
Just to check.... given that I have edited inittab ... is there a way to
query from the command line what runlevel I have booted to?
> Then re-enable more services until network connectivity is broken again.
> The last service that you enabled will probably be the culprit.
I have done so. Even with all of the services removed for runlevel 3
and rebooted at the runlevel, the connection is still failing after the
first series of pings.
If you look at
http://www.johnsons-web.com/demo/debian/
There are dumps of various snapshots of the system state.
000README.txt contains notes.
> I didn't see you say specifically whether or not you installed the beta
> version of Etch. Certainly if you still have the beta Etch, it's a good
> idea to update; I know, it's a catch-22 with the network down, but
> sneakernet (walking CD-ROMs from one machine to another) is an option.
> You could be facing a bug in the beta that has been fixed in the release
> version of Etch.
I've installed with debian-40r0-amd64-netinst.iso
Even if that is the correct (stable) version, I'd be happy to re-install...
tim
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Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>
Palmer, Alaska, USA
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