Did you go through rp3-config on the 7.2 machine?
Edward Dekkers wrote: > > Basically, we finally have a redundant piece of hardware similar to our > current server. > > I'd been waiting for an opportunity like this to upgrade to 7.2. > > Server1 - old server RH 6.2 all updates. > Server2 - new server - to become 7.2 all updates. > > So: > > I Drive imaged server1 on to server2. > Turned off all startup-stuff services on server2, and changed hostname and > IP-Address. > Upgraded to 7.2 via CD. > Got ppp going manually to up2date all packages except kernel. > Ran up2date again without kernel exclusion to see if it would upgrade > kernel. > > P.S. My Red Hat off to Red Hat programmers here. It worked!!!! Gave me > another kernel boot-up option in GRUB and booted the new kernel fine. > BRILLIANT! > > Turned on only a few services to start-including the AUTOMATIC pppd service, > which, on server1 was set up to dial-on-demand and worked perfectly. > > On this server it 'hangs' though. It loads lo and eth0 but hangs on starting > ppp0. The hard drive keeps spinning after and I suspect it IS continuing to > a point, but the screen stops, I can't even switch consoles. The ONLY thing > I can do is Ctrl-Alt-Delete and let it re-boot, the hit 'i' and stop the > network services. > > If I then type 'ifup ppp0' ppp starts normally. > > As an experiment, I turned the ONBOOT option off on the ppp0 device and > re-booted again. > > It fired up successfully, leaving me to believe it IS something to do with > PPP start-up. > > Again, manual start works. > > Then I simply put the 'ifup ppp0' into rc.local and re-booted again. > > Again it is fine. > > So, basically, yes I do have a working 7.2 server with automatic ppp dial-up > starting. However I can't stand going through all the ppp scripts and stuff, > finding them exactly the same as the 6.2 server ones, and it working on the > old server but not on the new. > > Has anything changed in the ppp startup between 6.2 and 7.2? I'd like to get > this working the 'RedHat' way if possible. Any ideas as to why it locks like > that? > > --- > Edward Dekkers (Director) > Triple D Computer Services Pty. Ltd. > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
