Our hardware people moved all the penguins to new DASD last night, so we took 
then all down, along with the two zVMs. When the copying was done, both zVMs 
came back up without problem, along with all the penguins... Except one.

The one zLinux image comes up, but gets the following messages during the boot:

Setting up network interfaces:
  lo
..done
  hsi0
Ifup: Could not get a valid interface name: -> skipped
..failed

I tried ifup hsi0, and it fails the same way. I logged the image out and tried 
to bring it up from scratch, with the same result. This image was running and 
using hsi0 before it and the zVM system was brought down. All the other images 
running on this box are up and communicating. This image is SuSE SLES 8 31 bit, 
and others of its type are running fine. Redhat, SLES 8 64 bit and SLES 9 64 
bit images are running fine.

A Q LAN DETAILS shows the image, but not details about it. It does not show up 
in a Q LAN ACTIVE.

/proc/modules does not list the qeth or qdio modules. I'm also getting the 
following message repeatedly, which might be related:

linux modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file: 
/lib/modules/2.4.21-292-default/modules.dep (No such file or directory)

That directory does not exist, but a 2.4.21-217-default does. This would point 
to a failed maintenance installation. Copying the 217 directory to the 292 one 
does not change the problem, with the exception that I get one new message 
while trying to run ifup hsi0:

linux modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-10-224

So.... Is there anything I can do, short of re-installing Linux, that could 
revive this penguin? (Sorry to be so long winded)

--
Robert P. Nix           Mayo Foundation
RO-CE-8-857             200 First Street SW
507-284-0844            Rochester, MN 55905
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"In theory, theory and practice are the same, but
 in practice, theory and practice are different."


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