Re: Unable to logon to Linux under VM

2009-06-25 Thread Vincent Getgood
-Snip- Reboot the z/VM guest. You should get a menu. At that point enter: #cp vi vmsg 0 init=3D/bin/bash -Snip- I don't get a menu, just the logon prompt. Still, I'll try it. Vince Getgood -- For LINUX-390 s

Re: Unable to logon to Linux under VM

2009-06-24 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 6/24/2009 at 7:54 AM, Vincent Getgood wrote: -snip- > I can't logon to disable the firewall, so I think I'm stuck. > > I tried re-booting the lpar from the linux CD to re-install linux, but > am now getting stuck on entering the MAC address during network setup. Reboot the z/VM guest.

Re: Unable to logon to Linux under VM

2009-06-24 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jun 24, 2009, at 9:35 AM, Mauro Souza wrote: Adam, In this case he needs to log via ssh to fix a configuration issue preventing him from logging from console... Whoops. I missed that. Hmmm. Maybe the SuSE installation left VNC open? I doubt it, but you could run nmap against it from an

Re: Unable to logon to Linux under VM

2009-06-24 Thread Mauro Souza
Adam, In this case he needs to log via ssh to fix a configuration issue preventing him from logging from console... Mauro http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521 Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God. On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Adam Thornton wrote: >

Re: Unable to logon to Linux under VM

2009-06-24 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jun 24, 2009, at 6:54 AM, Vincent Getgood wrote: Hi all It looks like I have a firewall problem on the linux guest. I've checked with my N/W team, who tell me the SSH port is open on all firewalls between me and the mainframe. However, when I try to SSH in, I see the following messages on

Re: Unable to logon to Linux under VM

2009-06-24 Thread Mauro Souza
If you have another running linux on your VM, you can do this: shutdown the LOCKED linux log in the RUNNING linux, and execute this: #CP LINK LOCKED 100 1100 MW This will link disk 100 of LOCKED as 1100 on RUNNING In the shell, run chccwdev -e 1100 mkdir /tmp/locked mount /dev/dasdx /tmp/locked

Re: Unable to logon to Linux under VM

2009-06-24 Thread Vincent Getgood
Hi all It looks like I have a firewall problem on the linux guest. I've checked with my N/W team, who tell me the SSH port is open on all firewalls between me and the mainframe. However, when I try to SSH in, I see the following messages on the VM guest console: - sfw2-inext-drop-deflt in et

Re: Unable to logon to Linux under VM

2009-06-24 Thread Damian Gallagher
That's interesting. I'll take a look into this. Damian -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:linux-...@vm.marist.edu]on Behalf Of Calvin Fisher Sent: 23 June 2009 16:37 To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Unable to logon to Linux under VM I ran into this sa

Re: Unable to logon to Linux under VM

2009-06-24 Thread Agblad Tore
n-gb/ From: Linux on 390 Port [linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Vincent Getgood [vincent.getg...@xchanging.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 09:05 To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Unable to logon to Linux under VM Great, Thanks for this. As I'm quite new to

Re: Unable to logon to Linux under VM

2009-06-24 Thread Vincent Getgood
Great, Thanks for this. As I'm quite new to all this, how, exactly, do I log on via SSH? I am using a PC running Windows to connect to the z via 3270 at the moment. I do have PuTTY installed, but when I try to connect to the Linux Guests IP address, I get a network timeout. Vince Getg

Re: Unable to logon to Linux under VM

2009-06-23 Thread Tom Duerbusch
You have Oracle running. Look in the recent archives for "Module is unknown when signing on". Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting >>> Vincent Getgood 6/23/2009 9:03 AM >>> Hi all, I'm having problems logging on to my SLES 10 system. I originally had this system running as a LPAR some months a

Re: Unable to logon to Linux under VM

2009-06-23 Thread Calvin Fisher
I ran into this same problem when trying to logon to the VM console. There is an error in the Oracle install doc. Last week after my change I was unable to logon the server on the console directly. I found that in February I was asked to make this change Add the following line to the /etc/pam.d/l

Re: Unable to logon to Linux under VM

2009-06-23 Thread Mauro Souza
Looks like someone changed /etc/security/limits.conf or pam configuration... This happens when following Oracle's documentation on Oracle 10g install for s390x. To solve this, you have to connect by ssh and get rid of the failing module (/var/log/messages can tell you what to remove). Mauro http:/

Re: Unable to logon to Linux under VM

2009-06-23 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Vincent Getgood wrote: > Module is unknown > Then get thrown back to the logon prompt. Smells like one of the pam modules may not be there. Did you maybe have a security person / tool enforce some of his popular settings in the pam configuration files? -Rob ---

Unable to logon to Linux under VM

2009-06-23 Thread Vincent Getgood
Hi all, I'm having problems logging on to my SLES 10 system. I originally had this system running as a LPAR some months ago, before installing VM. I have now defined a VM Guest (LINUX00), attached the DASD I had for the LPAR to the guest, and successfully IPL'd SLES 10. On the Linux guest