Re: [gentoo-user] Nameserver lookups fail on virtual server after Kernel upgrade from version 4.9 to 4.12

2017-08-21 Thread Mick
On Monday, 21 August 2017 11:35:44 BST Ralph Seichter wrote: > On 21.08.2017 08:08, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Ah, so silentoldconfig is effectively the same as old config. > > Silentoldconfig is quite a useful make target, since it only asks about > newly introduced kernel options. ... and it also

Re: [gentoo-user] Nameserver lookups fail on virtual server after Kernel upgrade from version 4.9 to 4.12

2017-08-21 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 21.08.2017 08:08, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Ah, so silentoldconfig is effectively the same as old config. Silentoldconfig is quite a useful make target, since it only asks about newly introduced kernel options. > Does your old kernel still work ad before? Just wondering if another > update could

Re: [gentoo-user] Nameserver lookups fail on virtual server after Kernel upgrade from version 4.9 to 4.12

2017-08-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
Ah, so silentoldconfig is effectively the same as old config. I've not use it before and must have been confusing it with olddefconfig. Sorry for the noise. Does your old kernel still work ad before? Just wondering if another update could have caused this. On 20 August 2017 15:25:56 EEST, Ral

Re: [gentoo-user] Nameserver lookups fail on virtual server after Kernel upgrade from version 4.9 to 4.12

2017-08-20 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 20.08.2017 08:17, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I'd try again with a clean kernel tree but using make oldconfig. It's > possible the automagic stuff answered n somewhere where you need a y. As https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade/en#make_silentoldconfig describes, "make silentoldconfig" (which

Re: [gentoo-user] Nameserver lookups fail on virtual server after Kernel upgrade from version 4.9 to 4.12

2017-08-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
I'd try again with a clean kernel tree but using make oldconfig. It's possible the automagic stuff answered n somewhere where you need a y. On 19 August 2017 21:28:05 EEST, Ralph Seichter wrote: >It seems strange to me as I write it, but since I updated one of my >virtual servers from Kernel v

Re: [gentoo-user] Nameserver lookups fail on virtual server after Kernel upgrade from version 4.9 to 4.12

2017-08-19 Thread Ralph Seichter
On 20.08.17 00:15, Craig MacKinder wrote: > It sounds like this vmxnet3 bug causing intermittent interface problems > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191201 > Try adding this to the VMware guest advanced settings. > vmxnet3.rev.30 = FALSE > And restart the guests. Interesting idea. Ho

Re: [gentoo-user] Nameserver lookups fail on virtual server after Kernel upgrade from version 4.9 to 4.12

2017-08-19 Thread Craig MacKinder
It sounds like this vmxnet3 bug causing intermittent interface problems https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191201 Try adding this to the VMware guest advanced settings. vmxnet3.rev.30 = FALSE And restart the guests. -- Craig On Aug 19, 2017, at 11:28 AM, Ralph Seichter mailto:m16+gen...

[gentoo-user] Nameserver lookups fail on virtual server after Kernel upgrade from version 4.9 to 4.12

2017-08-19 Thread Ralph Seichter
It seems strange to me as I write it, but since I updated one of my virtual servers from Kernel version 4.9.34 to 4.12.5, the server (Gentoo Linux running as a KVM guest) is experiencing timeouts when trying to connect to DNS resolvers. For the Kernel update, I followed the same steps I used for ye