Tracy R Reed wrote: > Tracy R Reed wrote: >> No, they did not hint what the problem might be. Although a few other >> people posted around the same time I did with the same problem. I >> suspect their dhcp server happened to be down or misconfigured or >> something when my lease expired and it tried to renew. But again, these > > Ok, with the help of Amazon I have learned what the problem is and it is > not what I expected: > > Turns out that the kudzu that comes with FC6 will record your hardware > configuration during the initial install but when you upload your image > to Amazon and boot it under xen kudzu will eventually notice (not sure > why it took a few months) that your hardware configuration has changed, > particularly your eth0, and it will inexplicably rename your ifcfg-eth0 > to ifcfg-eth0.bak which effectively disables it. Then dhcp tries to > renew its lease and for some reason seems to look at this file and dies > when it cannot be found. This is a quirk specific to FC6: > > http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?messageID=56966&; > > We just moved the ifcfg-eth0 back and brought the interface up and it's > alive again. > > So it wasn't Amazon's fault at all and I remain impressed with their > service.
OK, thanks for the update. There's another item for the "LookOutFor FAQ" -- if we had one :-) Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
