Upgrade -> rawhide disaster

[Martin Coker]

Neal Becker wrote:
> I just tried a 2nd upgrade F8-> rawhide.
>
> On reboot, it hung a long time on bringing up eth0, and failed.  This never
> had a problem on F8.
>
> 06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B
> PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
>
> When it went to start X, all I got was an 'X'.  And an apparantly dead
> machine.
>
> I rebooted into mode 3.  Ran top.  Nothing showed a significant load
> average.  Quit top.  Now, no response from keyboard.
>
> Rebooted into mode 1.  Looked at /var/log/messages.  Millions(?) of lines
> from named.  chkconfig named off.  Rebooted again.  Now, running OK, but
> still no eth0.
>
> No wired shown in NM.  Don't know why.
>
>   
I am not certain but from memory I believe NM does not work with static 
ip addresses. If you have set up the ip manually at install this may be 
the problem. I would disable NM if this is the case. I had similar 
problems but once NM was disabled and i had configured eth0 manually 
everything went fine. Might be worth a try.