Package: ifupdown Version: 0.7.8 Severity: normal File: networking Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
* What led up to the situation? Some time back I switched a server to use a static IP address instead of using a DHCP address reserved for that machine. After a recent kernel update, I rebooted the machine but it failed to restart. It stopped booting when bringing up the networking. It was not hung as it would show messages on the screen when I plugged or unplugged USB devices, but it wouldn't respond to keyboard input nor continue to a login prompt. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? I tried booting into single-user mode. This produced some more networking messages but still wouldn't move past the networking. Here's what was on the screen when the system stopped the boot process in single-user mode: [ 181.805309] r8169 0000:03:00.0: firmware: agent loaded rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw into memory [ 181.917202] r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth0: link down [ 181.920948] r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth0: link down [ 181.928316] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready [ 184.284849] r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth0: link up [ 184.292178] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready I rebooted into sysrescuecd and removed the /etc/rcS.d/S13networking link then rebooted into single-user mode again. After logging in as root, I ran /etc/init.d/networking start. It again failed to complete, but I was able to kill the process and return to a command prompt. ifconfig showed that the network had started so I logged out and continued the boot. * What was the outcome of this action? The server is running normally now, but I can't reboot it remotely if needed because it needs a local presence to start the networking. * What outcome did you expect instead? The server is located in a different city and it didn't occur to me when I was there to try reverting to DHCP to see if that fixes the problem. I don't want to try it remotely since a failure would mean another trip. *** End of the template - remove these lines *** -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.7 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages ifupdown depends on: ii dpkg 1.16.15 ii initscripts 2.88dsf-41+deb7u1 ii iproute 20120521-3+b3 ii libc6 2.13-38+deb7u6 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian8+deb7u1 ifupdown recommends no packages. Versions of packages ifupdown suggests: ii isc-dhcp-client [dhcp-client] 4.2.2.dfsg.1-5+deb70u6 ii net-tools 1.60-24.2 pn ppp <none> pn rdnssd <none> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
