On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 05:17:11PM +0200, Joshua Moore wrote:
> I'm having odd problems:
> 
> I've been running a sarge/2.4.19 box for some time. Recently, I 
> installed a ctx17-patched 2.4.20 kernel, rebooted, and installed two 
> vservers with newvserver, both woody. For several days they worked well. 
> I got ssh out but not in.  I was having working on the addressing 
> problems, because I'm within a large organization with very specialized 
> networks. (Theory 1)

hmm, must be a very special network that
ssh-ing in will not work *medidating*

> 
> Today, I came to work with the attempt of setting up X in a vserver, 
> typed in "vserver v2 enter", the line "ipv4root is now 172..." is 
> printed then everything hangs. Well, almost everything. No xterms 

xterms on the physical machine? so you
mean vserver enter locked your machine?

> worked. My WindowsMaker continued to function, but any attempt to get to 
> a terminal failed. Even the other consoles with Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6].
> 
> I rebooted several times and repeated the problem.

very interesting, try from the text console ...

> Here is what I've found out:
> ----------------------------
> * starting a console with a local user works fine. Su-ing to a networked 
> user fails.

what the hell is a networked user?

> * on start up, the init.d script CAN start the vserver fine (normal 
> output "security context is ..."), but if I set the vserver to not boot 
> on startup and then try to start it myself, the system hangs again after 

as networked??? user or as local user?
if former, I would guess this is related to the
unknown thingy above ...

> "ipv4root now...".
> * "vserver-stat" shows the running vserver; "mount" shows the mounted 
> "proc" and "dev" directories.
> * deleting the vserver and re-installing with "newvserver" changes nothing.
> 
> Any other theories?

yes, plenty of, but I guess some additional
clarifications would help a lot, narrowing it
down ... 

best,
Herbert

> Many thanks,
> Josh Moore
> DKFZ German Cancer Research Center
> Heidelberg, Germany

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