Re: Debian 4.0 on VMware Player 2.0.5 on WinXP Pro SP3 keybounce, network, clock issues
On Sun Aug 31, 2008 at 13:52:26 -0700, David Christensen wrote: 2. The eth0 network interface would not come up reliably at boot -- ~50% of the time it would work. When it failed what was the symptoms from the Debian side? I'd guess that it came up as eth1, eth2, etc. See if that is the case by running ifconfig -a. If it has a different number look at your udev config. 3. The clock ran fast -- Debian would sometimes gain an hour or more per hour of real time. Use the open-vm-tools package. Edited that would look something like this: apt-get install module-assistant open-vm-tools open-vm-source m-a prepare m-a build open-vm-source m-a install open-vm-source reboot Steve -- Managed Anti-Spam Service http://mail-scanning.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Debian 4.0 on VMware Player 2.0.5 on WinXP Pro SP3 keybounce,network, clock issues
Steve Kemp wrote: When it failed what was the symptoms from the Debian side? The Debian machine cannot access the network. I'd guess that it came up as eth1, eth2, etc. See if that is the case by running ifconfig -a. $ cat ifconfig-a-eth0-dead.txt eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:5A:F3:3A inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe5a:f33a/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:1494 (1.4 KiB) Interrupt:10 Base address:0x1400 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) $ cat ifconfig-a-eth0-working.txt eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:5A:F3:3A inet addr:192.168.0.12 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe5a:f33a/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:20864 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:16211 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:11956830 (11.4 MiB) TX bytes:2832918 (2.7 MiB) Interrupt:10 Base address:0x1400 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:18974 (18.5 KiB) TX bytes:18974 (18.5 KiB) sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) $ diff ifconfig-a-eth0-dead.txt ifconfig-a-eth0-working.txt 1a2 inet addr:192.168.0.12 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 4,5c5,6 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 --- RX packets:20864 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:16211 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 7c8 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:1494 (1.4 KiB) --- RX bytes:11956830 (11.4 MiB) TX bytes:2832918 (2.7 MiB) 14,15c15,16 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 --- RX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 17c18 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) --- RX bytes:18974 (18.5 KiB) TX bytes:18974 (18.5 KiB) HTH, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Debian 4.0 on VMware Player 2.0.5 on WinXP Pro SP3 keybounce, network, clock issues
debian-user: Blindly calling ifdown/ifup from /etc/rc.local was cheesy, and sure enough it didn't work reliably. So I wrote a Bash shell script to ping my gateway and do ifdown/ifup only if needed (three times maximum). I call that from rc.local instead: /root/bin/kick-eth0 David #!/bin/bash ### # $Id: kick-eth0,v 1.2 2008/09/01 03:13:47 dpchrist Exp $ # # Wake up interface eth0 as a work-around on Debian GNU/Linux virtual # machines running under VMware Player. Called by /etc/rc.local. # # Copyright 2008 by David Paul Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; version 2. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, # USA. ### IFDOWN=ifdown eth0 IFUP=ifup eth0 PING=ping -c 1 192.168.0.1 declare -i tries=3 while true do echo $0: running '$PING'... $PING ES=$? if [ $ES = 0 ] then echo $0: eth0 is operational break fi echo $0: attempting to wake up eth0 tries=tries-1 if [ $(( $tries = 0 )) = 1 ] then echo $0: ERROR unable to wake up eth0 exit 1 fi echo $0: running '$IFDOWN'... $IFDOWN sleep 1 echo $0: running '$IFUP'... $IFUP done ### -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Debian 4.0 on VMware Player 2.0.5 on WinXP Pro SP3 keybounce,network, clock issues
Steve Kemp wrote: Use the open-vm-tools package. Edited that would look something like this: apt-get install module-assistant open-vm-tools open-vm-source Aptitude sees module assistant, but not the others: # aptitude search module-assistant open-vm p module-assistant- tool to make module package creation easie http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=open-vm-tools shows the module open-vm-tools in etch-backports, lenny, and sid. http://www.backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions tells me how to add etch-backports to package management system. Running 'aptitude update' finds a bunch of stuff. Running 'aptitude install module-assistant' installs just that one module. Running 'aptitude -t etch-backports install open-vm-tools open-vm-source' blows up (see below) and takes out eth0. Logging in on the VMware console -- the network connection is dead. Running kick-eth0 script -- lots of errors. Reboot. Network is toast. Shut down virtual machine, move folder aside, unzip last backup... Any suggestions? David -- # aptitude -t etch-backports install open-vm-tools open-vm-source Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Building tag database... Done The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: binutils bzip2 cpp cpp-4.1 debhelper dpatch dpkg-dev ethtool fakeroot gcc gcc-4.1 gettext html2text intltool-debian libc6-dev libdumbnet1 libicu36 libmail-sendmail-perl libmudflap0 libmudflap0-dev libssp0 linux-kernel-headers make patch patchutils po-debconf The following packages have been kept back: base-files initramfs-tools initscripts klibc-utils libklibc linux-image-2.6-686 man-db sysv-rc sysvinit sysvinit-utils vim-common vim-tiny The following NEW packages will be installed: binutils bzip2 cpp cpp-4.1 debhelper dpatch dpkg-dev ethtool fakeroot gcc gcc-4.1 gettext html2text intltool-debian libc6-dev libdumbnet1 libicu36 libmail-sendmail-perl libmudflap0 libmudflap0-dev libssp0 linux-kernel-headers make open-vm-source open-vm-tools patch patchutils po-debconf 0 packages upgraded, 28 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded. Need to get 20.9MB of archives. After unpacking 64.3MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y Writing extended state information... Done Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org etch/main patch 2.5.9-4 [99.5kB] Get:2 http://www.backports.org etch-backports/main debhelper 5.0.60~bpo40+1 [522 kB] Get:3 http://ftp.debian.org etch/main binutils 2.17-3 [2605kB] 3% [3 binutils 639843/2605kB 24%] [2 debhelper 89445/522kB 17%]135kB/s 2m28s 4% [3 binutils 703555/2605kB 27%] [2 debhelper 96685/522kB 18%]135kB/s 2m28s 4% [3 binutils 771611/2605kB 29%] [2 debhelper 109717/522kB 21%] 135kB/s 2m27s 4% [3 binutils 829531/2605kB 31%] [2 debhelper 112613/522kB 21%] 135kB/s 2m27s 5% [3 binutils 887451/2605kB 34%] [2 debhelper 125645/522kB 24%] 135kB/s 2m26s 5% [3 binutils 943923/2605kB 36%] [2 debhelper 132885/522kB 25%] 135kB/s 2m26s 5% [3 binutils 1001843/2605kB 38%] [2 debhelper 143021/522kB 27%] 135kB/s 2m25s 6% [3 binutils 1067003/2605kB 40%] [2 debhelper 150261/522kB 28%] 135kB/s 2m25s 6% [3 binutils 1106099/2605kB 42%] [2 debhelper 157501/522kB 30%] 135kB/s 2m24s 6% [3 binutils 1171259/2605kB 44%] [2 debhelper 167637/522kB 32%] 135kB/s 2m24s 7% [3 binutils 1221939/2605kB 46%] [2 debhelper 13/522kB 34%] 135kB/s 2m23s 7% [3 binutils 1271171/2605kB 48%] [2 debhelper 187909/522kB 35%] 135kB/s 2m23s 7% [3 binutils 1337779/2605kB 51%] [2 debhelper 205285/522kB 39%] 136kB/s 2m21s 8% [3 binutils 1398595/2605kB 53%] [2 debhelper 219765/522kB 42%] 136kB/s 2m21s 8% [3 binutils 1460859/2605kB 56%] [2 debhelper 237141/522kB 45%] 136kB/s 2m20s 8% [3 binutils 1508643/2605kB 57%] [2 debhelper 257413/522kB 49%] 136kB/s 2m20s 9% [3 binutils 1559323/2605kB 59%] [2 debhelper 271893/522kB 52%] 136kB/s 2m19s 9% [3 binutils 1618691/2605kB 62%] [2 debhelper 290717/522kB 55%] 136kB/s 2m19s 9% [3 binutils 1676611/2605kB 64%] [2 debhelper 305197/522kB 58%] 136kB/s 2m18s 14% [3 binutils 2478803/2605kB 95%] [Waiting for headers] 130kB/s 2m16s Get:4 http://www.backports.org etch-backports/contrib open-vm-source 2008.07.01- 102166-3~bpo40+2 [432kB] Get:5 http://ftp.debian.org etch/main bzip2 1.0.3-6 [269kB] 15% [5 bzip2 526/269kB 0%] [4 open-vm-source 28674/432kB 6%]139kB/s 2m6s 15% [5 bzip2 70030/269kB 26%] [4 open-vm-source 41706/432kB 9%] 139kB/s 2m6s 16% [5 bzip2 126502/269kB 47%] [4 open-vm-source 50394/432kB 11%] 139kB/s 2m5s 16% [5 bzip2 178630/269kB 66%] [4 open-vm-source 61978/432kB 14%] 139kB/s 2m5s 16% [5 bzip2 242342/269kB 90%] [4 open-vm-source 75010/432kB 17%] 139kB/s 2m4s Get:6 http://ftp.debian.org etch/main cpp-4.1 4.1.1-21 [2331kB] 17% [6 cpp-4.1 716/2331kB 0%] [4 open-vm-source 79354/432kB 18%]139kB/s 2m4s 17% [6 cpp-4.1
