Re: NSLU2 Install problems with 4.0r2
I had one crash and one failure while trying to install Debian 4.0r2 on my NSLU2: 1. Crashed while trying to write a new partition table. 2. Failed during software install step, tried to setup as a Web Server and File Server. The crash was a one time event, I haven't tried to recreate the failure because it only happens after taking some two hours to install all the necessary software. After installing using only the base software I was successful in getting the slug up and running. - jake On Dec 30, 2007 11:03 AM, John Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/12/2007, John Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Potts wrote: The relevant lines towards the end seem to be: Dec 29 21:34:12 base-installer: Err http://ftp.uk.debian.org etch Release.gpg Dec 29 21:34:12 base-installer: Could not connect to ftp.uk.debian.org:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out The slug seems to think that ftp.uk.debian.org has an IP address of 1.0.0.0 which is obviously wrong. It should be 83.142.228.128. This suggests that there is something wrong with the DNS setup, either on the slug itself, or on the machine which it is using as a DNS server. Given that you're picking up your IP address by DHCP, what values are being sent for the DNS server? What ends up in /etc/resolv.conf on the slug? Contents of resolv.conf are: nameserver 192.168.1.1 ...which is the IP of my ADSL router and the same setting as on my laptop that resolves the address just fine. Funnily enough I've just started experiencing exactly the same problem with a cheap no-name ADSL router which I'm trying to set up for my father. The first computer to connect to it gets working DNS whilst the second one gets all DNS queries answered with 1.0.0.0 as the address. This is on the end of a Tiscali ADSL connection, so I don't know whether it's the router or Tiscali f**king things up. Sounds like it's the same as your problem though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NSLU2 Install problems with 4.0r2 -- SOLVED
Dave Potts wrote: [snip] It was a problem with my D-link router and NOT with the slug or debian installer. Problem is described here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/81057 My quick fix was to go into a shell and hard-code my ISP's DNS server IPs into /etc/resolve.conf before doing the install. All then worked fine, but the DNS is lost on re-boot. I think openDNS will be my longer term solution -- assuming no firmware for the router to fix it. It's really funny that I should have been trying to help you with this and hit the same problem myself only a day later. Your pointer was most useful, but I went for a different fix which to me is more satisfying. Install bind9 and then edit /etc/bind/named.conf.options to point to the ISP's DNS servers in the forwarders clause. Then edit /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf and un-comment the prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1; line as advised in the article you link to, but change the word prepend to supersede. That way you get *only* 127.0.0.1 in your /etc/resolv.conf file. Working beautifully for me here. It's very odd that it should be the routers running Linux which get it wrong. Mine does offer the means to upgrade the firmware but it's so no-name that there's absolutely no clue as to where one might get updated firmware from. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NSLU2 Install problems with 4.0r2
On 29/12/2007, John Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Potts wrote: The relevant lines towards the end seem to be: Dec 29 21:34:12 base-installer: Err http://ftp.uk.debian.org etch Release.gpg Dec 29 21:34:12 base-installer: Could not connect to ftp.uk.debian.org:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out The slug seems to think that ftp.uk.debian.org has an IP address of 1.0.0.0 which is obviously wrong. It should be 83.142.228.128. This suggests that there is something wrong with the DNS setup, either on the slug itself, or on the machine which it is using as a DNS server. Given that you're picking up your IP address by DHCP, what values are being sent for the DNS server? What ends up in /etc/resolv.conf on the slug? Contents of resolv.conf are: nameserver 192.168.1.1 ...which is the IP of my ADSL router and the same setting as on my laptop that resolves the address just fine. Funnily enough I've just started experiencing exactly the same problem with a cheap no-name ADSL router which I'm trying to set up for my father. The first computer to connect to it gets working DNS whilst the second one gets all DNS queries answered with 1.0.0.0 as the address. This is on the end of a Tiscali ADSL connection, so I don't know whether it's the router or Tiscali f**king things up. Sounds like it's the same as your problem though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NSLU2 Install problems with 4.0r2 -- SOLVED
On 30/12/2007, John Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/12/2007, John Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Potts wrote: The relevant lines towards the end seem to be: Dec 29 21:34:12 base-installer: Err http://ftp.uk.debian.org etch Release.gpg Dec 29 21:34:12 base-installer: Could not connect to ftp.uk.debian.org:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out The slug seems to think that ftp.uk.debian.org has an IP address of 1.0.0.0 which is obviously wrong. It should be 83.142.228.128. This suggests that there is something wrong with the DNS setup, Contents of resolv.conf are: nameserver 192.168.1.1 ...which is the IP of my ADSL router and the same setting as on my laptop that resolves the address just fine. Funnily enough I've just started experiencing exactly the same problem with a cheap no-name ADSL router... It was a problem with my D-link router and NOT with the slug or debian installer. Problem is described here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/81057 My quick fix was to go into a shell and hard-code my ISP's DNS server IPs into /etc/resolve.conf before doing the install. All then worked fine, but the DNS is lost on re-boot. I think openDNS will be my longer term solution -- assuming no firmware for the router to fix it. Thanks for all advice. Dave. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NSLU2 Install problems with 4.0r2
* Dave Potts [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-29 12:12]: I've been trying to install the 4.0r2 release. It gets up to selecting the kernel to install and I pick linux-image-2.6.18-5-ixp4xx. It goes on a bit more then it stops with Unable to install initramfs-tools . I pulled the USB external drive out and plugged it into another machine, but /var/log/syslog is empty. Any suggestions? /var/log/syslog in the installer is not the USB drive, but a filesystem in memory. You need to manually copy /var/log/syslog to /target (the USB drive). One thing I might have done wrong is I set aside 1gig for swap. Is that way too much? Could that be the issue? Shouldn't be, assuming you left enough space for root (/). -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: NSLU2 Install problems with 4.0r2
What size of drive are you using? Sam -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Potts Sent: 29 December 2007 12:12 To: debian-arm@lists.debian.org Subject: NSLU2 Install problems with 4.0r2 Hello, Anyone about who can help a newbie with Debian installation to an NSLU 2 problems please? I've been trying to install the 4.0r2 release. It gets up to selecting the kernel to install and I pick linux-image-2.6.18-5-ixp4xx. It goes on a bit more then it stops with Unable to install initramfs-tools . I pulled the USB external drive out and plugged it into another machine, but /var/log/syslog is empty. Any suggestions? One thing I might have done wrong is I set aside 1gig for swap. Is that way too much? Could that be the issue? Cheers, Dave. http://dadhacker.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NSLU2 Install problems with 4.0r2
Hi, Following up on my previous posting, I've got the /var/log/syslog off the slug from my failed install. I've put it on google docs at: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhg5vq6x_73dbsv3ggs The relevant lines towards the end seem to be: Dec 29 21:34:12 base-installer: Err http://ftp.uk.debian.org etch Release.gpg Dec 29 21:34:12 base-installer: Could not connect to ftp.uk.debian.org:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out Dec 29 21:34:12 base-installer: Reading package lists... Dec 29 21:34:12 base-installer: Failed to fetch http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/Release.gpg Could not connect to ftp.uk.debian.org:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out ...followed by subsequent failures to authenticate packages. From my laptop going through the same ADSL router I can get to ftp.uk.debian.org:80. Have I got something set up wrong in my slug's network? Any idea how I could debug? I *think* I'm setting up the slug by DHCP. I can obviously SSH into the slug from the same 192.168.1.x network. Cheers, Dave. Thanks, Dave. http://dadhacker.blogspot.com/ On 29/12/2007, Dave Potts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got a 120 gig external drive: 1gig swap, 119gig in one big partition (yes: newbie configuration choices I'm sure!) I'm going to give it another go getting the /var/log/syslog off the slug when the installer fails. I'll report back. Thanks, Dave. On 29/12/2007, Sam Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What size of drive are you using? Sam -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Potts Sent: 29 December 2007 12:12 To: debian-arm@lists.debian.org Subject: NSLU2 Install problems with 4.0r2 Hello, Anyone about who can help a newbie with Debian installation to an NSLU 2 problems please? I've been trying to install the 4.0r2 release. It gets up to selecting the kernel to install and I pick linux-image-2.6.18-5-ixp4xx. It goes on a bit more then it stops with Unable to install initramfs-tools . I pulled the USB external drive out and plugged it into another machine, but /var/log/syslog is empty. Any suggestions? One thing I might have done wrong is I set aside 1gig for swap. Is that way too much? Could that be the issue? Cheers, Dave. http://dadhacker.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NSLU2 Install problems with 4.0r2
Dave Potts wrote: Hi, Following up on my previous posting, I've got the /var/log/syslog off the slug from my failed install. I've put it on google docs at: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhg5vq6x_73dbsv3ggs The relevant lines towards the end seem to be: Dec 29 21:34:12 base-installer: Err http://ftp.uk.debian.org etch Release.gpg Dec 29 21:34:12 base-installer: Could not connect to ftp.uk.debian.org:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out Dec 29 21:34:12 base-installer: Reading package lists... Dec 29 21:34:12 base-installer: Failed to fetch http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/Release.gpg Could not connect to ftp.uk.debian.org:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out The slug seems to think that ftp.uk.debian.org has an IP address of 1.0.0.0 which is obviously wrong. It should be 83.142.228.128. This suggests that there is something wrong with the DNS setup, either on the slug itself, or on the machine which it is using as a DNS server. Given that you're picking up your IP address by DHCP, what values are being sent for the DNS server? What ends up in /etc/resolv.conf on the slug? John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NSLU2 Install problems with 4.0r2
On 29/12/2007, John Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave Potts wrote: The relevant lines towards the end seem to be: Dec 29 21:34:12 base-installer: Err http://ftp.uk.debian.org etch Release.gpg Dec 29 21:34:12 base-installer: Could not connect to ftp.uk.debian.org:80 (1.0.0.0), connection timed out The slug seems to think that ftp.uk.debian.org has an IP address of 1.0.0.0 which is obviously wrong. It should be 83.142.228.128. This suggests that there is something wrong with the DNS setup, either on the slug itself, or on the machine which it is using as a DNS server. Given that you're picking up your IP address by DHCP, what values are being sent for the DNS server? What ends up in /etc/resolv.conf on the slug? Contents of resolv.conf are: nameserver 192.168.1.1 ...which is the IP of my ADSL router and the same setting as on my laptop that resolves the address just fine. Any suggestions what I should do? What about setting up ftp.uk.debian.org manually in the hosts file? Dave. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
