Hi, I just dist-upgraded a Dell Inspiron 5160 that was running 2.6.12 kernel and Debian Unstable. After the upgrade(I recall hotplug was uninstalled and udev upgraded), the laptop boot process now stalls at the "Configuring network interfaces ..." step. Any idea what could be the problem?
I tried booting into single user mode, but it stalls at the same point. I was able to boot into Debian Unstable by making a change using a Knoppix boot cd. I had guessnet based setup in the laptop (the guessnet interfaces file is listed in the PS below). At boot time, something seemed to be going wrong with that. So I booted using Knoppix, mounted the / partition and changed the /etc/network/interfaces so that eth0 was using dhcp protocol (without using guessnet). I was then able to boot into Debian Unstable without any problems. But when I tried to use my "interfaces" file which used guessnet scripts, the problem came back again and the machine stalled/hanged. Rebooting the machine again gave a stall or hang at "Configuring network interfaces ..." step. And reverting back to the dhcp protocal for eth0 worked. Anybody has any idea why guessnet would give me this problem? I have: dhcp3-client 3.0.3-5 DHCP Client dhcp3-common 3.0.3-5 Common files used by all the dhcp3* packages guessnet 0.36-1 Guess which LAN a network device is connecte thanks, ->HS PS: In /etc/network, I have multiple interface files: # ls -1 interfaces* interfaces interfaces.guessnet interfaces.home-dhcp interfaces.home-static interfaces.pharma where "interfaces" is a soft link to one of the other files. I had this pointing to interfaces.guessnet so far (Other files were used before I started using guessnet, and when I used each one depending where my laptop was). Here is my guessnet based file (some IP address are masked below): ################################################################## ~# cat /etc/network/interfaces.guessnet # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto eth0 mapping eth0 script /usr/sbin/guessnet-ifupdown map homedlink homelinux pharmalan map default: homelinux iface homedlink inet static address 192.168.1.14 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1 dns-nameservers x.y.z.q up /etc/firewall/fw-desktop-multi-nics.sh start test-peer address 192.168.1.1 source 192.168.1.14 iface homelinux inet dhcp up /etc/firewall/fw-desktop-multi-nics.sh start down /etc/firewall/fw-desktop-multi-nics.sh stop #test-peer address 192.168.0.1 iface pharmalan inet static address aa.bb.cc.dd netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway aa.bb.cc.ff dns-nameservers aa.bb.cc.11 aa.bb.cc.22 up /etc/firewall/fw-desktop-multi-nics.sh start down /etc/firewall/fw-desktop-multi-nics.sh stop test-peer address aa.bb.cc.ff source aa.bb.cc.dd ################################################################## -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
