[Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

Wed Apr 10 20:21:06 CEST 2013

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+On 10/04/13 13:07, Frank Griffin wrote:
+> On 04/10/2013 07:31 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
+
+I think there may be some misunderstandings, so I'll try to correct them
+inline.
+
+> Interesting.  I guess you didn't configure eth0 from the Install 
+> Summary.
+
+I configured it to use dhcp, since netbooks are used in other places (I
+use the hotel cabled network when in Madeira).
+
+> You can do it from the chroot (using Colin's suggestion) by running
+> drakconnect.
+> 
+Drakconnect ran,  I saw the "waiting for network to be up" followed by
+OK.  If I now offer "ifup eth0" I get
+
+"Running in a chroot. ignoring request
+bind: Cannot assign requested address
+RTNETLINK answers: Network is unreachable
+ERROR:  [etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth] Error adding default
+gateway 192.168.0.1 for eth0
+NETLINK: Error: File exists
+and "sbin/ifup: configuration for eth.  Ping tells me that the network
+is unreachable.
+Running in a chroot. ignoring request"
+
+>> That's what I thought, but still after "exit" I get the "Running 
+>> in chroot" messages :-(
+> 
+> It's odd that a rescue system brought up through a network 
+> connection doesn't have it at runtime.
+
+I'm running the rescue system from the DVD, not through a network.
+
+> Maybe try Colin's suggestion from the rescue system
+> 
+I did, this time.
+
+>> 
+>> As usual, lots of detail if you already understand it, but it
+>> seems to rely on you knowing URLs.  I thought I could simply copy
+>> the URL from this system, adapting the version if it looked
+>> necessary, but if I look at Edit on the add-media page of MCC it
+>> just says $MIRRORLIST - and "echo $MIRRORLIST" doesn't tell me
+>> anything at all.
+> 
+> The syntax won't be identical, but you can get an idea of the URL
+> to use by looking in /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg on your root partition to
+> see what's being used for "core release".
+> 
+OK, if I can get the network up I'll see what I can do along those lines.
+
+>> There's obviously a real problem with the Intel drivers being 
+>> removed by accident during the update.  For everyone's sake, I'd 
+>> like to try to identify the problem, but I feel as though I'm 
+>> banging my head against a brick wall.
+> 
+> There are really two issues here.  One is getting your system to 
+> work again.  The other is finding out what went wrong to begin
+> with.
+
+I was hoping that we would be able to find some trace of what went
+wrong as we are working with this,l but by now maybe any relevant logs
+will be destroyed.
+
+> For the latter, you should probably open a bug describing exactly 
+> what you did in the initial upgrade, and attaching the files from 
+> /root/drakx.
+
+I had intended to, but hoped to have more information before I do
+that.  I have copied /root/drakx to /root/drakx-sav - hopefully this
+will preserve all we need.
+
+> I've never done a distro upgrade myself,
+
+Out of curiosity I tried the distro upgrade.  It appeared to complete,
+but booted to a blank screen, so I didn't waste any more time on it.
+I started afresh and did a clean install (though keeping /home).
+
+Something occurred to me today that may or may not be relevant.  This
+problem with the Intel drivers being removed may not be a very new
+problem.  I was running Cauldron successfully on this netbook for a
+long time, up to early January.  Then I went away for three weeks.
+When I returned near the end of January I switched on and did a big
+update.  After that I had a black screen, much like the current one.
+
+I thought it might be because something important had happened while I
+was away so that I had not made a necessary change at the right time,
+so I waited for the opportunity to do this install.  It may be, then,
+that this was my first experience of this same bug.
+
+> If all else fails (and after you attach the files to the new bug), 
+> you could try re-running the upgrade.  If you can get to package 
+> selection, "Individual Package Selection" may get you what you
+> need, and Summary will allow you to configure video and network.
+> But this will overlay the /root/drakx files.
+
+As I said earlier, it was a clean install, not an upgrade, and it
+completed perfectly.  I then rebooted as usual, and immediately used
+MCC to add all other media sources, and did the big update.  This is
+when it went pear-shaped.
+
+Anne
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