On Jul 13, 2005, at 8:03 AM, Nix, Robert P. wrote:
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)
Mount its disk under a running penguin with -292. Copy /lib/
modules/...292 to it. Use depmod -a -b to run depmod as if it were
being run from the failed guest (I think it's "-b", but check first).
Bring it up. If it doesn't come up, run depmod -a again and reboot.
If that doesn't work, then ask again and we'll see what we can think of.
Adam
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