Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 11:57:36 -0500 From: Michael Alwan <alwan@rma.edu> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Amnesiac and no user ppp Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970331115736.006e2c80@rma.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970331003418.397C-100000@localhost> References: <3.0.1.32.19970331000419.00685940@rma.edu>
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At 12:35 AM 3/31/97 -0800, you wrote: >On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Michael Alwan wrote: > >> To all: >> >> >> >> When I reboot, the machine is (Amnesiac) again. > >Somehow you broke the 'hostname' directive in /etc/sysconfig. Make sure >it's still there and is defined, and is mode 644. > >> In addition, user ppp >> doesn't work correctly anymore. >Do "add 0 0 HISADDR" just after connecting to add the route. > >> In addition, any program that needs a network connection (netscape, xemacs) >> will hang if I try to start it (in X windows). > >Probably on a nameserver lookup on your name which doesn't exist. > >Hope this helps some more. > >Doug White | University of Oregon >Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant >http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > Doug: No go on all your suggestions. Unfortunately, I ftp'd the 2.2.1 release directly into my bsd partition, instead of to a dos partition--so I can't reinstall without hours of downloading. I do have the 2.1.7 binaries on a dos partition. I wanted 2.2.1 for compatability with the oss soundcard driver from 4front, but I can't get it to work anyway. Why reinstall? Well, noticed a couple of wierd things. My home directory (/usr/home/michael) may be corrupted somehow: when I "ls" it the contents display as one column on the left. Only in this directory: subdirectories of /michael display correctly. I tried backing up /michael, deleting the directory and copying back; the same problem EVENTUALLY appears. (Is this because I'm dumping too much stuff into /michael--xemacs, netscape, big caches from netscape?). Maybe I should have deleted /home too. When I ftp'd 2.2.1, the installation did give me a host name--it was an internet address--I think it was the nameserver of my ISP, or maybe the dynamic adddress they assign me. In any case, the problem seem to have started after I changed this default hostname in sysconfig. Unless someone has another suggestion, I'm going to reformat the bsd partition and reinstall some distribution--maybe download 2.2.1 again. What fun! Michael
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