Topic: 6.0.1 Server Failure

[joepok]

Hey Guys,

I've been using SME 6.0.1 for a couple of weeks now. It freezes and crashes occasionally, but it's running on a PII 350 Mhz so, I assume that is the cause.

I finally put a SME 6.0.1 system as the main Router/ Server for our computer labs at work on a 700 Mhz machine and find it freezes and needs restarts every few hours... so I did a fresh install on a PIII 650 Mhz 256 RAM/ 160 Gig HD. Here's the problem:

The system boots fine, but leaves me at the login prompt, not the menu... When I log in as root, and do ifconfig, I get only the one loopback lo 127.0.0.1, no menu, no ethernet devices, no nuthin'...

I tried this on 2 separate but similar systems... any ideas?

Thanks

Joe

[Anonymous]

Try - su admin

[mrjhb3]

login as admin to get the menu.  If you want the menu to show up by default, then choose option 2 to configure server and choose the auto selection on the selecet console mode screen.

JB

[MSmith]

If you've installed all these systems from the same burnt CD, I'd suspect your image is corrupt.  The one and only time I've actually had an e-smith box fall over was when it ran out of disk space.

[tape]

Hey Guys,
I've been using SME 6.0.1 for a couple of weeks now. It freezes and crashes occasionally, but it's running on a PII 350 Mhz so, I assume that is the cause.

I finally put a SME 6.0.1 system as the main Router/ Server for our computer labs at work on a 700 Mhz machine and find it freezes and needs restarts every few hours... so I did a fresh install on a PIII 650 Mhz 256 RAM/ 160 Gig HD. Here's the problem:

The system boots fine, but leaves me at the login prompt, not the menu... When I log in as root, and do ifconfig, I get only the one loopback lo 127.0.0.1, no menu, no ethernet devices, no nuthin'...

I tried this on 2 separate but similar systems... any ideas?

Thanks

Joe

yup.. i have had similar problems on different machines. The machine runs well for some hours or minutes, then it freezes and no communication through teh NICs was possible.

In all cases i had some network cards with a old DEC (21140? dunno yet) chipset. After worked well after i changed these NICs to some with a Realtek chipset.

hth
Anton