On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 23:14 -0400, Kwan Lowe wrote: > Hello All: > I just did a Fedora12 Desktop Edition installation to hard drive and > an update. This went smoothly, but I had some errors immediately > afterwards. > > During the installation I don't recall being prompted for network > configuration. On initial boot, I did the normal configuration such as > time zone and LDAP server setup. Initial login went fine. Because this > is a virtual machine and accessible only via the network, I went ahead > and changed the eth0 configuration to a static IP address via the > system-config-network utility. > > That's where the problem started. > > After rebooting after updating all packages, I could not login. The > system was attempting to authenticate via the LDAP server but when > switching from DHCP to static it apparently also sets the onboot flag > to no in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file. Logins, > whether local root or an LDAP user, would take about a minute to > timeout before returning to the login prompt. > > To compound the issue, the grub timeout was set to 0 so that I > couldn't even access the grub menu to change the runlevel. I ended up > booting the CD image just to be able to set the NIC to start on boot. > (Afterwards I learned about the SHIFT key override from the > "increasing grub timeout?" thread elsewhere). > > No harm done, but I am curious as to the rationale for the interface > not being enabled after reconfiguration from DHCP to static. Did I > miss something in the configuration that would enable it? ---- probably did miss it In system-config-network, if you double click the interface, there is a checkbox for 'Activate device when computer starts' Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
