[Server-devel] XS 0.5.1 RC - Last round of testing...

[Sameer Verma]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Martin Langhoff
> <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
>>> was with eth0 not showing up. It looks like I am the victim of the
>>> dreaded Realtek 8139 bug. It worked in XS 0.4 but in 0.5.1 it refuses
>>> to show up.
>>
>> Strange, but it does look like a driver problem.
>>
>> The links you provide show various different problems with that NIC.
>> In some cases, irqpoll in the kernel boot line fixes, in others some
>> fiddling with ethtool was needed...
>>
>> It'll be good to know which of the fixes helps you :-)
>
> appending irqpoll has fixed that problem. Now, I've hit another bug.
> This is yum broken with _sha256 as stated here.
> http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=193507
>
> I'm going to try the workaround.
>
>>
>> BTW, if you upgraded from XS-0.4, it might be a good idea to rm
>> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
>
> No, this was a clean install. I'm running the server for testing only,
> so I can afford to wipe it clean.
>
> Sameer
> --
> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor of Information Systems
> San Francisco State University
> San Francisco CA 94132 USA
> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
>


So, after mucking around last night and today, I wiped my XS box and
reformatted it to remove ALL traces of 0.4  I have a clean 0.5.1
install on it. md5sum of the ISO is c0fde10b93cab3cb1a3bc3a42ceb5408

I've circumvented the realtek 8139 problem by appending irqpoll in
grub.conf That seems to work, although I have to bring up eth0
manually and issuing dhcient eth0

I still hit the bug of _sha256 as mentioned here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454179

Note that I am not upgrading anything. Its a clean install. I believe
the appropriate word for this is: AARGH!

I wish Fedora had  LTS or "Stable" branch (it does...kinda...in
RHEL...are we allowed to say CentOS here?) but that's another thread
and another rant. It does remind me of why I don't run anything on
Fedora anymore.

Anyway, this is getting in the way. Is anyone seeing this too? If so,
then its a significant barrier for 0.5.1

Suggestions?

Sameer
-- 
Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Information Systems
San Francisco State University
San Francisco CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
http://opensource.sfsu.edu/