Topic: cannot boot. help please.

[katumba]

Running updates on secondary server to bring up to 7.2. Had some issues with the installer, so I was running the updates a few at a time from the web interface.  During one reboot (sorry, don't know what updates ran), system didn't come back up. On the screen, 'interface dev**** not found' was scrolling by super fast. Did an interactive startup, didn't start Eth0, got the system back up, switched the network to the 2nd NIC, and am now able to boot up on that nic. 

Here is the message that is repeated over and over in the 'messages' log.

Nov  5 20:13:28 mp3 squid[7208]: commBind: Cannot bind socket FD 11 to 192.168.0.11:3128: (99) Cannot assign requested address
Nov  5 20:13:28 mp3 squid[7208]: Accepting HTTP connections at 127.0.0.1, port 3128, FD 11.
Nov  5 20:13:28 mp3 squid[7208]: commBind: Cannot bind socket FD 12 to 192.168.0.11:3130: (99) Cannot assign requested address
Nov  5 20:13:28 mp3 squid[7208]: Cannot open ICP Port
Nov  5 20:13:29 mp3 squid[7212]: Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE14 for i686-redhat-linux-gnu...
Nov  5 20:13:29 mp3 squid[7212]: Process ID 7212
Nov  5 20:13:29 mp3 squid[7212]: With 1024 file descriptors available
Nov  5 20:13:29 mp3 squid[7212]: DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 32772, FD 5
Nov  5 20:13:29 mp3 squid[7212]: Adding nameserver 192.168.0.11 from /etc/resolv.conf
Nov  5 20:13:29 mp3 squid[7212]: User-Agent logging is disabled.
Nov  5 20:13:29 mp3 squid[7212]: Referer logging is disabled.
Nov  5 20:13:29 mp3 squid[7212]: Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 10
Nov  5 20:13:29 mp3 squid[7212]: Swap maxSize 102400 KB, estimated 34133 objects
Nov  5 20:13:29 mp3 squid[7212]: Target number of buckets: 1706
Nov  5 20:13:29 mp3 squid[7212]: Using 8192 Store buckets
Nov  5 20:13:29 mp3 squid[7212]: Max Mem  size: 8192 KB
Nov  5 20:13:29 mp3 squid[7212]: Max Swap size: 102400 KB
Nov  5 20:13:29 mp3 squid[7212]: Rebuilding storage in /var/spool/squid (DIRTY)
Nov  5 20:13:29 mp3 squid[7212]: Using Least Load store dir selection
Nov  5 20:13:29 mp3 squid[7212]: Current Directory is /var/service/squid
Nov  5 20:13:29 mp3 squid[7212]: Loaded Icons.


Any idea how I can return the system back to the 1st nic and fix the problem? Thanks. Kat

[mmccarn]

You might try an upgrade using the 7.2 iso.

[katumba]

I tried that, actually. No help. Still just streams that error by continuously.

[mmccarn]

Ouch.

If you can still boot it up with Internet access, you could try to finish the yum updates.  Be sure to follow the sequence outlined in http://wiki.contribs.org/Updating_to_SME_7.2#Yum_Update in order to get your yum repository configuration up to date.

If that doesn't sound workable, you may want to backup, reinstall, and restore...