On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:21:59PM -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 07:28:33PM +0000, Stuart Brady wrote: > > > I'm not sure if this is due to upgrading to 2.6.18-4, but 'eth0' stopped > > working recently on my SS5. I did a bit of digging in /sys and noticed: > [..] > > When I renamed 'eth0' to 'eth0_rename' in /etc/network/interfaces, it > > worked! Any idea what's going on here? > > Erm, not really. I'll try to see if I can reproduce it on my SS20.
#394047 seems to include a report of the same problem I'm having. My suspicion is that udev is getting confused by the two lance interfaces using the same MAC address. If I remove z25_persistent-net.rules and z45_persistent-net-generator.rules from /etc/udev/rules.d, the problem goes away. > > Also, I can't install 2.6.18-3 as yaird is failing: [..] > > That looks like bug #396193, which didn't receive any attention from > maintainer for over 3 months now, making yaird pretty much unuseable > on sparc. You can use an alternative (and, currently, default) initrd > creator, initramfs-tools. Installing initramfs-tools, removing yaird, > and running 'dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.18-4-sparc32' should > generate a working initrd. Okay -- I did that, and it's fine now. Thanks. -- Stuart Brady -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]