Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:03:08 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Drew <cotharyus@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Complete loss of network on 6_STABLE Message-ID: <20070413210308.00ae1eb9.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <715841970704131752o1730f77gd5339b2552657609@mail.gmail.com> References: <715841970704121750g101c1b12m4f150b8d2871b80c@mail.gmail.com> <715841970704131752o1730f77gd5339b2552657609@mail.gmail.com>
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Drew <cotharyus@gmail.com> wrote: > > A little more on this, because now I am really stumped. I have taken known > good source, and moved it via CD to this machine. I rebuilt, and it exhibits > exactly the same behavior, with both my kernel, and GENERIC. Pinging an IP > on my lan results in ping: sendto: host is down. There are no active > firewalls on this machine. When I ping another IP on the network, activity > happens on the switch. I have swapped NIC's to a known working one from > another machine, and it behaves identically. I have changed ports on the > switch. About the only thing I haven't done is reinstall (which reminds me, > I have a Freesbie disc around here somewhere to try) - but I'd rather that > was a last resort. Meaning I'm open to any suggestions anyone might have > about this. I'm coming to this thread a little late, so I apologize if this information has already been passed around. Can you provide ifconfig -a, netstat -m, netstat -s, netstat -rn output on the troubled system. > On 4/12/07, Drew <cotharyus@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I have a 6 stable box that I cvsup'd at around 5:15am central US time this > > morning. I did a buildworld and buildkernel on it after checking the > > UPDATING file and finding nothing since 6.2 release, ran mergemaster and > > rebooted, so I was a little surprised when it never came back. Once I gained > > physical access to the box, I discovered it had no apparent ability to open > > a sock - neither unix, nor udp nor tcp. I can ping localhost, but not other > > IP's on my network. X tells me host.domain.name:0 is a bad display name. > > So I need to know how to get things back up and running. Is this a known > > problem that has been fixed, or have I stumbled across something no one else > > has seen? As a side note, I have to give major props to all the developers - > > it sounds like my situation is really bad, but this is the first major > > problem I've had in over 7 years of tracking -STABLE of one version or > > another. Let me know if I can just cvsup another 6-stable box and burn it to > > a disc and copy it off on here, or what I need to do to fix this, because > > I'm lost. For the record: > > > > mergemaster -p > > make buildworld > > make buildkernel KERNCONF=mykernel > > make installworld > > make installkernel KERNCONF=mykernel > > mergemaster -a > > reboot > > > > came up with no sockets. At this point: > > > > rm -rf /usr/obj > > make clean > > make buildworld ...etc - still no sockets. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com
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