Package: upgrade-reports
Severity: important
There were a few issues not covered in the release notes.
1) networking doesn't work properly any more
system takes about 20 minutes to boot. Most of this time is wasted, because
portmap is trying in vain to mount nfs-filesystems before
networking has been set up properly.
/---/etc/network/interfaces--------
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
auto eth0 eth0:1
iface eth0 inet static
address 141.n.n.n
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 141.n.n.n
broadcast 141.n.n.n
gateway 141.n.n.n
# dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed
dns-nameservers 141.40.131.47
dns-search physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de
iface eth0:1 inet static
address 192.n.n.n
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.0.255
\-----------------------------------
/---/etc/fstab----------------------
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/md0 /merkur ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hdb2 none swap 0 2
/dev/hda2 none swap 0 2
/dev/hdb1 /merkur1 ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
192.168.0.n:/home /home nfs suid,dev,exec 0 0
192.168.0.n:/atheneraid /atheneraid nfs suid,dev,exec 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/sda1 auto user,noauto,defaults 0 0
192.168.0.n:/atheneraid/tausch /tausch nfs exec,suid,dev
0 0
\-----------------------------------
In the past this very files have always worked ok with our nis and nfs-server.
Not any more. System takes ages to boot, after this is
complete, network shares are mounted and nis is working. Probably portmap
and/or nis try to access 192. adresses before they are
initialized. During this period the system doesn't respond to ping, ssh etc.
After staying at 'loading portmap' for 15 minutes and booting up,
everything is normal.
Note that this behaviour is *not* perculiar to the upgrade, it is observed for
'new' installs of etch as well. Network setup is as
described in the third example of etch's
/usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples/network-interfaces.gz
2) Many packages have been removed that probably shouldn't
most importantly: kde (etc.), kdm, cupsys, xserver-xorg was not installed
instead of xserver-xfree86
This includes those marked as 'manually installed'.
3) swap appears not to work correctly any more
syslog:
Apr 4 13:15:32 merkur kernel: Unable to find swap-space signature
the boot console says something about 'swapon /dev/hdb2: invalid argumet' IIRC.
I am happy to provide log-files or a 'script'-transcript of the upgrade, if it
would be useful.
I would really like to get networking working in less than 15 minutes!
Thanks for the good work! Etch is great!
Johannes
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Debian Release: 4.0
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