It does show up on the VSwitch, but you can't ping it.
Rich Smrcina
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Can you see the virtual machine register on your VSwitch (Q LAN
DETAILS)? Can you ping it?
Joell Chockley wrote:
> I've got a strange problem with a Linux guest. The only indicator we've
> come up with so far is that /dev/null had it's file permissions changed
on
> Friday afternoon to -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 81 2008-01-11 15:03 /dev/null
> (we don't know how this was changed). One of our admins changed it back
to
> 666, but it was still missing the character file attributes. Everything
> still worked fine, until it was rebooted on Sunday evening. Now, it
comes
> up under VM, but the connections that allow us to putty to it aren't
> working. It's only mounting / and when I sign on as root and try to
change
> null to a character file, it tells me the file system is read-only
although
> the permissions for /dev are drwxr-xr-x. It's also not mounting /opt
which
> is what is on /dev/system/lvm1.
>
> doing the mount command, we see this output.
>
> proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> (none):/ # mount -a
> mount -a
> mount: devpts already mounted or /dev/pts busy
> mount: /dev/system/lvm1 is not a valid block device
>
> We're in the process of trying to restore back to the last good full
volume
> backup, but I'm really curious if changing /dev/null could have this
strong
> of a impact and if there's any ideas of what we might be able to do to
fix
> the problem without restoring.
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