Topic: reboot problems

[Danny Wong]

I hope someone has an idea on this one.  

Whenever I do something that requires a reboot, my SME server reboots back into the console manager saying, "ERROR: changes to your configuration have not been saved!  Please reconfigure your server" (or something close to that)  

Due to this error, I have been unable to remote administer anything to my box and have to apply all updates via console.  This is frustrating because my box is at a location far from me and I have to walk people through steps to fix.  Steps to fix are quite easy, select configure this server, hit changing nothing until it prompts to apply changes.  Often seems to happen after I run:

/sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-upgrade
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event reboot
 
But it does NOT seem to be limited only to these ocasions.  Sometimes happen when I just reboot.

Does anyone have any idea why my box performs in this way?  Does anyone else have this same problem?

[Ray Mitchell]

> Does anyone have any idea why my box performs in this way?
> Does anyone else have this same problem?

I can only assume that in fact there are unsaved configuration changes, that's why it gives that message. This can happen if you don't finish a restore process fully, or sometimes if the power is turned off rather than shutting down the machine the correct way, or when you do upgrades but don't issue the post-upgrade and/or reboot commands.
It seems like you may be playing around with updates, so perhaps you have got the procedure wrong. Read the upgrade instructions carefully.

> select configure this server,
> hit changing nothing until it prompts to apply
> changes.

In my experience you need to change one setting temporarily (rather than nothing) so that new changes will in fact be saved. The server will then want to reboot and then you go through the configure process again, changing the setting back to what it should be (and saving and rebooting again)

You can also do
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event console-save
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event reboot

Regards
Ray