Topic: At boot time, SME713 hang on Starting network 20min

[cubique]

I've just installed a fresh 7.1 then update to latest update available, 713.
My system is a dual P3 on SuperMicro mb, with 768RAM, 1 net card Intel card onboard, 2 RTL8139C net card on PCI

First I've set eth0 on RTL (1) and eth1 on RTL (2). Both eth0 and eth1 have static ip (eth0=192.168.2.2, eth1=192.168.2.50, gateway=192.168.2.1).

At boot time, when Starting network is shown, the system hangs for more than 20 min (hdd seems to be readed by sme).

Corse, I've tried to use just Intel net card with RTL(1) with hope that something will be fixed miraculous, but I'm just an innocent optimist.

I've thought that is something wrong with my installation, so I've reinstalled again from scratch. Now I am in the same situation.

Just to know: before upgrading to 713 the same configuration was just ok.
No custom rpm installed, just yum update.

Anyway, after trying all ways I've managed, I've just took a big cup of coffe, wait for another 20min, login prompt appears, logged to server-manager, read the boot log:
.....
Jul 11 07:30:00 gw network: [  
Jul 11 07:30:00 gw network:
Jul 11 07:30:00 gw network: Bringing up loopback interface:  
Jul 11 07:30:01 gw network: Bringing up loopback interface:  succeeded
Jul 11 07:30:01 gw network: [  
Jul 11 07:30:01 gw network:
Jul 11 07:30:01 gw network: Bringing up interface eth0:  
Jul 11 07:30:05 gw network: Bringing up interface eth0:  succeeded
Jul 11 07:30:05 gw network: [  
Jul 11 07:30:05 gw network:
Jul 11 07:30:05 gw network: Bringing up interface eth1:  
Jul 11 07:30:07 gw network: Bringing up interface eth1:  succeeded
Jul 11 07:30:07 gw network: [  
Jul 11 07:30:07 gw network:
Jul 11 07:30:08 gw network: cannot change name of eth0 to eth2: Device or resource busy
Jul 11 07:30:08 gw network:
Jul 11 07:30:08 gw network: interface 'dev23183' not found
Jul 11 07:30:08 gw network: interface 'dev2472' not found
Jul 11 07:30:08 gw network: interface 'dev12622' not found
Jul 11 07:30:08 gw network: interface 'dev13661' not found
Jul 11 07:30:08 gw network: interface 'dev25677' not found
Jul 11 07:30:08 gw network:
Jul 11 07:30:08 gw network: interface 'dev28820' not found
Jul 11 07:30:08 gw network: interface 'dev1500' not found
Jul 11 07:30:08 gw network:
Jul 11 07:30:08 gw network: interface 'dev6224' not found
Jul 11 07:30:08 gw network: interface 'dev23666' not found
Jul 11 07:30:08 gw network: interface 'dev20677' not found
Jul 11 07:30:08 gw network:
Jul 11 07:30:08 gw network: interface 'dev20840' not found
Jul 11 07:30:08 gw network: interface 'dev604' not found
Jul 11 07:30:08 gw network: interface 'dev21397' not found
....and the list contains something like 13000 lines with different "interface xxxx not found".

For sure is something wrong with card configuration, where to dig, where to change something in order to fix this "cannot change name of eth0 to eth2", because I believe that this is the mother of problems.
Thx

[CharlieBrady]

I've just installed a fresh 7.1 then update to latest update available, 713.
My system is a dual P3 on SuperMicro mb, with 768RAM, 1 net card Intel card onboard, 2 RTL8139C net card on PCI

SME server has no support for more than two network interfaces.

I suspec you've got something strange going on in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory.

[cubique]

I've just installed a fresh 7.1 then update to latest update available, 713.
My system is a dual P3 on SuperMicro mb, with 768RAM, 1 net card Intel card onboard, 2 RTL8139C net card on PCI

SME server has no support for more than two network interfaces.

I suspec you've got something strange going on in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory.

Well, it's not that strange just that I can see more than 2 ifcfg files (except lo,ppp)

Anyway, what looks strange to me is that if linux doesn't support more than 2 interfaces it just should discard the 3rd/4th/etc cards or it should warn the stupid user (like me), which I never believed that this SME is limited to only 2 cards; sound like impossible to me but make sense, if we take in account that I have 3 net cards on my server;

Anyway, ifcfg-eth2 and eth3 seems to have attribute ONBOOT=no which sounds like "this interface is disabled".

I'll try to remove 1 net card from my board to see what's happening.

Thank you for your post

[CharlieBrady]

First I've set eth0 on RTL (1) and eth1 on RTL (2). Both eth0 and eth1 have static ip (eth0=192.168.2.2, eth1=192.168.2.50, gateway=192.168.2.1).

That's a senseless configuration. 192.168.2.2 and 192.168.2.50 are on the same network. eth0 and eth1 must be configured to be different networks (i.e. different IP address ranges).

[cubique]

First I've set eth0 on RTL (1) and eth1 on RTL (2). Both eth0 and eth1 have static ip (eth0=192.168.2.2, eth1=192.168.2.50, gateway=192.168.2.1).

That's a senseless configuration. 192.168.2.2 and 192.168.2.50 are on the same network. eth0 and eth1 must be configured to be different networks (i.e. different IP address ranges).

Interesting is that, before update to 713 it works with this dummy configuration, without no problem.

Why am I using this configuration? because (temporary) I access the internet via a local router (192.168.2.1) so I setup my linux's external interface to have IP in local network and gateway as my_router_ip(192.168.2.1)

Anyway, I will give a try, thx again for your kindly help

[CharlieBrady]

Interesting is that, before update to 713 it works with this dummy configuration, without no problem.

As it says every time you post a message here:

          Don't report problems here - Please report bugs and potential bugs in the bug tracker

[zi4]

I have a similar problem using only 2 interfaces (Server-gateway-mode).

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=37783.msg169972#msg169972

Now it's a (possible) bug:
http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3161

cheers, Stefan