I am having the strangest problem. As a demonstration, I took my Potato server into singleuser mode, unmounted the partition mounted on /tmp, and overwrote the first 128k with data from /dev/zero. I then rebooted (`shutdown -r now') to show how fsck worked (new admin) - well, it also checked my RAID- seems that something didn't work right when rebooting in single-user mode. So, it checks the disks, and everything is fine. Except that ppp dosen't work. After some debugging, I conclude that it is a problem with our ISP, leave a message (it was Saturday) and leave the box.
Well, it wasn't an ISP problem. Something is very wrong with my box. My serial ports don't work properly- pilot-xfer won't connect to my Palm IIIx; ppp connections will start, but LCP packets seem not to get sent even though pppd reports sending them; mgetty will answer the line, but sends garbage. This was just after I ran apt-get to bring my system up to date (no perl updates though) - it updated libc6 and some other stuff. All this happened on July 31st, and serial stuff still isn't working. I have tried everything- a new kernel, re-configuring setserial, adding/removing modems and serial ports (via BIOS), re-installing libc6, including an older version. Everything works fine on a different Potato box. Everything works fine if I use a rescue boot/root disk. Does anyone have some idea what has gone wrong and how I should fix it? Is there an option other than reinstalling? -- .------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Ian Eure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Network Administrator, Cross Sound Appraisal Company | | "A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking."