[Novalug] Re: new install of Fedora 8

[Jay Hart]

> On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 16:02 -0500, Jay Hart wrote:
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>> > Jay Hart wrote:
>> >> Making progress.
>> >>
>> >> By turning off Network Manager, I can now set an ip address on eth0.
>> >>
>> >> All I need to do now is get DNS and a gateway set, and I think I will be
>> >> able
>> >> to update system.
>> >>
>> >> Jay
>> >>
>> >>>> I turned that off, lets see if it helps.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Looking through /var/log/messages, I see:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> could not load /lib/modules/2.6.23.15-137.fc8/modules.dep: Permission
>> >>>> Denied
>> >>>>
>> >>>> the premissions (-rw-r--r--) look fine, all files owned by root.  the
>> file
>> >>>> exists.
>> >
>> > Are you sure it's not an SELinux issue? Disable SE and see if that won't
>> > fix itself. Also, make sure that the directories about modules.dep are
>> > accessible. Last but not least could a non-root use be trying to depmod ??
>> >
>> >>>>
>> >>> And r8169 (NIC driver) will not load on startup.  I can mnaually load
>> it,
>> >>> then
>> >>> do ifup eth0, but two minutes later I get the DHCP stuff again.  If I
>> could
>> >>> stop that from happening, I think I could get online long enough to do a
>> >>> system package update.
>> >
>> > I've NEVER seen this problem with RH/Fedora before. Are you sure the
>> > install completed without hickups?
>> >
>> Other then not installing the initrd file, I'm pretty sure it completed just
>> fine. Nothing bombed on me.
>
> Was this the same box you were having problems with earlier, on which
> you were installing several distros?  Just wondering.

Yes this is.  I updated all the packages via System Tools -> Software Updater.
I was hoping to install new kernel and kernel files, but that didn't happen, 
that I have been able to tell.

Whatever issue I had with the modules not loading seems to have disappeared
when I got the network int to work.  And after I did the package updates and
rebooted, the network int was still working on startup, meaning I did not have
to start/stop anything.

What tool would you recommend using to go and get an updated kernel and
associated packages?

Thanks again for your help,

Jay

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