network service is not working :(

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Thu, 2/26/09, Christopher Beland <beland at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> From: Christopher Beland <beland at alum.mit.edu>
> Subject: Re: network service is not working :(
> To: olivares14031 at yahoo.com, "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009, 1:14 PM
> There are several different approaches you can take to
> diagnosing this.
> 
> * Check /var/log/* to see if there are any relevant
> messages
> * Figure out when, exactly, this stopped working, and
> whether reverting
> to a previous version of some package fixes the problem
> * Verifying that the configuration file for eth0 is valid
> and compatible
> with the latest version of the network service (which is
> where I would
> look for differences between eth0 and eth1, if they are at
> all similar)

Part of dmesg follows:

[olivares at localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.29-0.157.rc6.git2.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Wed Feb 25 17:50:42 EST 2009 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux


eth0: no link during initialization.                                            
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready                                    
eth0: link up.                                                                  
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready                               
------------[ cut here ]------------                                            
WARNING: at lib/dma-debug.c:461 check_unmap+0xf6/0x3d8() (Not tainted)          
Hardware name: System product name                                              
forcedeth 0000:00:04.0: DMA-API: device driver tries to free DMA memory it has not allocated [device address=0x0000000016b4e242] [size=90 bytes]                
Modules linked in: fuse nouveau drm sco bridge stp llc bnep l2cap bluetooth autofs4 sunrpc nf_conntrack_netbios_ns iptable_nat nf_nat ip6t_REJECT ip6table_filter ip6_tables ipv6 uinput snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device pcspkr snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc 3c59x forcedeth i2c_nforce2 mii i2c_core usblp pata_ali sata_vsc sata_svw sata_via pata_pcmcia sata_nv ata_generic pata_acpi pata_amd [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]                         
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.29-0.157.rc6.git2.fc11.i586 #1            
Call Trace:                                                                     
 [<c042fe03>] warn_slowpath+0x7c/0xa7                                           
 [<c044e373>] ? find_usage_backwards+0xc8/0xea                                  
 [<c044e373>] ? find_usage_backwards+0xc8/0xea                                  
 [<c044ffed>] ? check_usage+0x29/0x20a                                          
 [<c044f686>] ? mark_lock+0x1e/0x30b                                            
 [<c054a200>] ? task_current_syscall+0x6a/0x8e                                  
 [<c054a2fe>] ? get_hash_bucket+0x26/0x2f                                       
 [<c054aa62>] check_unmap+0xf6/0x3d8                                            
 [<c0430313>] ? release_console_sem+0x1a9/0x1d6                                 
 [<c044f686>] ? mark_lock+0x1e/0x30b                                            
 [<c054aeb1>] debug_dma_unmap_page+0x5b/0x63
 [<c054aeb1>] ? debug_dma_unmap_page+0x5b/0x63
 [<f0ead3e6>] T.907+0x34/0x3f [forcedeth]
 [<f0ead42c>] nv_tx_done+0x3b/0x187 [forcedeth]
 [<f0ead61c>] nv_nic_irq+0xa4/0x238 [forcedeth]
 [<c047105b>] handle_IRQ_event+0x22/0x58
 [<c047247c>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x80/0xb7
 [<c04723fc>] ? handle_fasteoi_irq+0x0/0xb7
 <IRQ>  [<c04045ac>] ? common_interrupt+0x2c/0x40
 [<c044fbc2>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0xd
 [<c041b94c>] ? native_safe_halt+0xa/0xc
 [<c0409703>] ? default_idle+0x4f/0x89
 [<c044ee6d>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xb/0xd
 [<c0403010>] ? cpu_idle+0x72/0x92
 [<c06df86f>] ? rest_init+0x53/0x55
---[ end trace c74d902094a946dd ]---
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
eth1:  setting half-duplex.
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready


> 
> Am I wrong in remembering that NetworkManager is in the
> long run
> replacing the network service?
No your not wrong.  But still I need the network service because this machine was trying to act as a dhcp server which never worked anyway :(


> 
> -B.

On the other machine(s), NetworkManager is taking care of the duties and it is working fine :)

Regards,

Antonio