[Thincrust-devel] eth0 interface doesn't come up on latest derived F10 AMI

[Jon Steer]

A follow up on this..

restarting the "dead" AMI did allow it to restart. It just appears that the
ethernet device will not come up on a cold boot.

jon


On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Jon Steer <jon.steer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry, I spoke too soon!
>
> Unbelievable.. I can't imagine where to start looking for this.  But I
> explicitly setup the AKI and ARI (I have logs of  this) and now 3-4 days
> later I can't run an instance.  I instantiated each instance at least once
> after I created it.
>
> This is the bundle line
> ec2-bundle-vol -d /mnt -k /mnt/pk-xxxxxxxxxxx.pem -c
> /mnt/cert-xxxxxxxxxx.pem -u nnnnnnnnnn -r i386  --kernel aki-a71cf9ce
> --ramdisk ari-a51cf9cc -s 2048 -p myderivedimagename
>
>
> Each instance worked (even 1-2 days afterwards).. but now they don't work
> and fail trying to get the network up in the same fashion as my earlier
> report.
>
> It is like some token/key times out inside the kernel? or some cache gets
> flushed out?
>
> Just for grins and giggles, I instantiated the orignal F10 ami to see if
> that needed to be running or in cache before these instances would run.
> That did not work.  I compared console output of the two instances (the
> original F10 and my derived one) and they were the same right up to where
> .
> .
> Bringing up interface eth0:
> Determining IP information for eth0...RTNETLINK answers: No such process
>  done.
> RTNETLINK answers: Network is down
>
> .
>
>
> Whereupon, the derived instance is dead.
>
> Ideas? I'm happy to try out ideas.
>
> jon
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Bryan Kearney <bkearney at redhat.com>wrote:
>
>> Jon Steer wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry, guess it is my bad... rebuilding and then explicitly stating the
>>> AKI and ARI produces images that run.
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> jon
>>>
>>
>> Jon:
>>
>> Thanks for looking into this. Most of us are on vacation this week. We
>> will work on the docs and talk with the Amazon folks about making the
>> default ami/aki be the one you are in.
>>
>>
>> -- bk
>>
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