Darrick Hartman wrote: > Michael Keuter wrote: > >>> Michael Keuter wrote: >>> >>>> Hi list, >>>> >>>> on my Astlinux test PC (PIII 1GHz, 256 MB RAM) all geni386 trunk >>>> images hang at boot, when the ntpd demon starts, for about 2-5 >>>> minutes. Trunk-1806-image was the latest where it worked. Now I got >>>> 1907 on it. >>>> The PC has normal static network settings and works normally after >>>> booted completely. It also gets a dynmic IP during the runnix boot. I >>>> also tried a fix IP-address for the ntp server (europe.pool.ntp.org) >>>> but it doesn't helped. >>>> >>> Hi Michael, >>> >>> The only time I've seen this happen is if the ntp server was >>> unreachable. It's possible that there is a bad ntp server in the >>> europe.pool.ntp.org pool. That dns uses some sort of a round robin >>> approach to deciding which ntp server in the pool you get. >>> >>> I'll check, but I don't recall any changes to ntp between those revisions. >>> >>> Off topic, but I would strongly suggest using images built from the 0.6 >>> branch rather than from trunk. Trunk will be in various states of >>> brokenness over the new few weeks/months as some big updates happen >>> (kernel, gcc, uclibc etc). 0.6 will only get bug fixes and minor >>> changes so it's going to be much more stable. >>> >>> Darrick >>> >> Hi Darrick, >> >> I used only your prebuild images. And no, it must >> be something special because when I boot my >> net4801 with 0.4.8 and the same ntp server, there >> is no problem. >> Is it possible to make the timeout for ntpd >> shorter? If I remember there was a switch some >> time ago from one ntpd programm to anotherŠ >> > > We can look at this. Actually, there are a few possible explanations. > > 1). 0.4.8 used openntpd. We switched to ntpd because it has been more > reliable. I've seen openntpd stop functioning and really cause problems. > > 2). When you boot the new system with runnix. Is runnix obtaining an > IP address? If so, is it the same IP address that your device uses > AFTER it's booted? You mentioned a static IP address for Astlinux, but > dhcp for runnix. Perhaps your switch is caching the MAC address and > confusing the initial network functionality. (just throwing that out > there). Try setting both to the same static IP address and gateway or > setting both to dhcp to see what happens. >
Or alternately, disconnect the external interface during the Runnix phase of booting, and plug it back in once the AstLinux image starts to load. -Philip > >> BTW: Is there any newer prebuild 0.6 geni386 image than 1907? >> > > Yup. I'm building some 0.6 images from SVN 1957 today and will upload > them later. I had a major issue with my server yesterday afternoon so I > was busy working that out. Cross your fingers for me that it stays running. > > Darrick > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
