David Rankin wrote:
>
> Greetings all -- I need help!!
>
> I can't figure out why my networking won't start on boot, but works just
> fine if i use Drakeconf to restart networking. I have Mandrake 7.2 set
> up on a system with an ABIT KT7 motherboard, AMD 800 Mhz T-Bird, 256M,
> ATI video, Linksys LNE100TX eithernet adapter, and USR 33.6k modem (ISA
> on Comm 2 - ports there, system can't find modem? -- that's a problem
> for later)
>
> I boot the system, eth0 fails, (ybind also) everything else works great,
> I use Drake conf to configure the network (it already has the IP and
> Domain values, I just go though it to get to the "restart networking"
> prompt) then say yes to restart and every thing works fine. I don't see
> why it should work fine but fail to initialize on boot. I then kill and
> restart smbd and nmdb and presto, Samba is up and running fine. I need
> to get this problem fixed, because if the system reboots when I'm gone,
> I am up a creek.
>
> I have included my ifcfg-eth0, excerpts from my boot log, and
> kernel/errors below in this plea for help. Any tips, suggestions or
> information you may have will be greatly appreciated.
>
> David Rankin
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (936) 715-9333
>
> **
> ifcfg-eth0 is as follows:
> **
>
> DEVICE=eth0
> BOOTPROTO=static
> IPADDR=192.168.7.14
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> NETWORK=192.168.7.0
> BROADCAST=192.168.7.255
> ONBOOT=yes
>
> **
> Excerpts from Boot.log are as follows:
> **
>
> Jan 23 13:54:40 Nemesis rc.sysinit: Checking filesystems succeeded
> Jan 23 13:54:47 Nemesis rc.sysinit: Mounting local filesystems succeeded
>
> Jan 23 13:54:47 Nemesis rc.sysinit: Checking loopback filesystems
> succeeded
> Jan 23 13:54:47 Nemesis rc.sysinit: Mounting loopback filesystems:
> succeeded
> Jan 23 13:54:47 Nemesis rc.sysinit: Turning on user and group quotas for
> local filesystems: succeeded
> Jan 23 13:54:48 Nemesis rc.sysinit: Enabling swap space: succeeded
> Jan 23 13:54:49 Nemesis mandrake_everytime: Building Window Manager
> Sessions succeeded
> Jan 23 13:54:49 Nemesis network: Setting network parameters: succeeded
> Jan 23 13:54:49 Nemesis network: Bringing up interface lo: succeeded
> Jan 23 13:54:49 Nemesis ifup: Delaying eth0 initialization.
> Jan 23 13:54:49 Nemesis network: Bringing up interface eth0: failed
> Jan 23 13:54:50 Nemesis usb: Loading USB interface succeeded
> Jan 23 13:54:50 Nemesis usb: Mount USB filesystem succeeded
> Jan 23 13:54:53 Nemesis portmap: portmap startup succeeded
> Jan 23 13:54:53 Nemesis ypbind: ypbind startup failed
> Jan 23 13:54:53 Nemesis autofs: autofs startup succeeded
> Jan 23 13:54:53 Nemesis random: Initializing random number generator:
> succeeded
> Jan 23 13:54:53 Nemesis netfs: Mounting other filesystems: succeeded
> Jan 23 13:54:56 Nemesis cfd: cfd startup succeeded
> Jan 23 13:54:56 Nemesis named: named startup succeeded
> Jan 23 13:54:56 Nemesis sshd: Starting sshd:
> Jan 23 13:54:56 Nemesis sshd: succeeded
> Jan 23 13:54:56 Nemesis sshd: ^[[60G
> Jan 23 13:54:56 Nemesis sshd:
> Jan 23 13:54:56 Nemesis rc: Starting sshd: succeeded
> Jan 23 13:54:59 Nemesis xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded
> Jan 23 13:54:59 Nemesis cups: cupsd startup succeeded
> Jan 23 13:55:00 Nemesis lpd: lpd startup succeeded
> Jan 23 13:55:00 Nemesis nfslock: rpc.lockd startup succeeded
> Jan 23 13:55:00 Nemesis nfslock: rpc.statd startup succeeded
> Jan 23 13:55:01 Nemesis zope: zserver.sh startup succeeded
> Jan 23 13:55:01 Nemesis loadkeys: Loading
> /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.kmap.gz
> Jan 23 13:55:02 Nemesis keytable: Loading keymap: us succeeded
> Jan 23 13:55:02 Nemesis loadkeys: Loading
> /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/include/compose.latin1.inc.gz
> Jan 23 13:55:02 Nemesis keytable: Loading compose keys:
> compose.latin1.inc succeeded
> Jan 23 13:55:02 Nemesis keytable: succeeded
> Jan 23 13:55:02 Nemesis lvs: IPv4 packet forwarding disabled failed
> Jan 23 13:55:02 Nemesis postfix: Starting postfix:
> Jan 23 13:55:07 Nemesis postfix: postfix
> Jan 23 13:55:07 Nemesis rc: Starting postfix: succeeded
> Jan 23 13:55:08 Nemesis gpm: gpm startup succeeded
> Jan 23 13:55:10 Nemesis httpd: httpd-perl startup succeeded
> Jan 23 13:55:20 Nemesis httpd: httpd startup succeeded
> Jan 23 13:55:22 Nemesis numlock:
> Jan 23 13:55:22 Nemesis rc: Starting numlock: succeeded
> Jan 23 13:55:24 Nemesis start: Starting Webmin server in
> /usr/share/webmin
> Jan 23 13:55:24 Nemesis webmin: Starting Webmin succeeded
> Jan 23 13:55:24 Nemesis xfs: xfs startup succeeded
> Jan 23 13:55:26 Nemesis smb: smbd startup succeeded
> Jan 23 13:55:27 Nemesis smb: nmbd startup succeeded
> Jan 23 13:55:27 Nemesis anacron: anacron startup succeeded
> Jan 23 13:55:27 Nemesis rc.news: Starting innd.
> Jan 23 13:55:28 Nemesis sh: rc.news startup succeeded