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Installation issues / Re: Recovering from a failed install

« on: February 19, 2010, 04:40:48 am »

Don,

I am by no means an expert at this but as a fellow head scratcher in a simular situation.  I might be able to help.

I had that problem, because of my network connection.

From the console, try to ping your router to confirm connectivity to it (assuming your web connection is through a router).

ping 10.1.1.1  (or whatever address you have to ping to)

Then if that is okay check that DNS is working.

ping www.google.com (or whatever)

If not, check interfaces file as below.

My problem was that I had only one NIC, and the settings in /etc/network/interfaces was incorrect.

I edited the file so that I was using DHCP (router provided address and DNS)

auto eth0
eth0 inet dhcp

Saved it then,

sudo ifdown eth0 (may not be needed)
sudo ifup eth0

Then it was a goer.

I got the failed to Setup X too, but I think I checked the other screens (Ctrl + ALT + F1 through F?) and found that there were things still going on.

I have learnt that if the PC seems to have hung, I wait, go make a coffee, check if anything is going on in the other screens.
Then but only then do I reluctently reboot.

Hope this helps

Let me know how you go.

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Installation issues / Re: What should I expect after installation?

« on: February 18, 2010, 02:16:25 pm »

That did the trick.  DHCP works fine.

Stay tuned for my next hurdle. - Getting the sound sorted out.

Thanks to everyone that replied.

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Installation issues / Re: What should I expect after installation?

« on: February 18, 2010, 01:07:53 pm »

Andreas

Sorry my previous post was incomplete (accidental post) when you replied.  Geeze you're quick.

As this will initially be a single hybrid setup with no other MD's or orbiters, I really only need the one NIC for the web connection.

I do plan on adding another nic but wanted to keep things basic as possible for the install and add components later - bad idea in some aspects so it seems.

I am currently experimenting with a couple of changes with interfaces for now.

Is it recommended to run eth0 as static?
My router is set up for DHCP and would prefer to use this method.

Thanks.

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Installation issues / Re: What should I expect after installation?

« on: February 18, 2010, 12:40:03 pm »

Looks like you have a network problem what is your network hardware?
and what is the output of ifconfig?

I tend to agree - I think my initial eth0 problem has come back to bite me.

The original problem was that the dns info was not getting set by my router straight away, it took some time, not sure what actually got it going.

ifconfig does not return anything at all;  prior to the install eth0 and lo were listed.  Not a good sign 

The NIC is onboard the P55-UD3R MB using RTL8111D chip.

I checked the content of /etc/network/interfaces

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.1.1.6
netmask
gateway

auto eth0:1
iface eth0:1 inet static
address 192.168.60.1
netmask 255.255.255.0

mmm.   

I think I might try dhcp for eth0 and see if that makes a difference.

Failing that, I will manually enter the subnet and gateway.

Let me know if there is anything else I need to check.

Cheers.

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Installation issues / What should I expect after installation?

« on: February 18, 2010, 10:57:49 am »

I have managed to install LinuxMCE 8.10b2 from DVD.

I had a little trouble with the AVWizard.
It kept going from step 5 to step 1 unless I selected "no audio"
So I selected "no audio" for now.

What should I expect to happen now?

When I boot up this is what I get...

Starting NFS common utilities [fail]
Starting domain name service... bind9 [fail]
Starting NFS common utilities [fail]  (again)
Starting NFS kernel daemon   -  hangs for over 3 mins but eventually returns [ok]
Starting samba daemons [fail]
I think ther may be another fail there but it is too quick. - Log file location anyone?

Then the screen clears and I get "Welcome to LinuxMCE"  in large text.
Followed by "Starting Core Sevices"
and "Installing Firefox"    -seems to do this every boot
Sometimes I get "Regenerating Orbiter 21" sometimes not.

The grand finale is the good ole' blank screen with a mouse cursor.

Now...  according to the install guide the MD is not installed initially so I was expecting to do this next (this box is to be a hybrid), but I am not sure if things are as they should be.

Are they?

If it helps, I have the following hardware specs:
Gigabyte P55-UD3R MB Realtek ALC888 audio
Gigabyte 9800 GT (1GB) NVIDIA GeForce Graphics card (utilising VGA until I get things sorted out)
4GB RAM

Thanks

-Pob
 

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Installation issues / Re: Recovering from a failed install

« on: February 18, 2010, 08:40:07 am »

If you have two NIC cards, the problem may be NIC switching, and if it's the case, edit file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and change eth1 to eth0 on first entry (mobo interface) and change eth0 to eth1 (Gb Intel interface) - after reboot, it works like it should.

Thanks pw44

Unfortunately this is not the case.  I only have one onboard NIC and no others.
I have hit another hurdle for the time being, so I will have to sort this out later.

-Pob

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Installation issues / Re: Recovering from a failed install

« on: February 17, 2010, 12:32:39 pm »

I have since found that the eth0 connection to be rather temperamental.

For some reason the DNS info is not being passed on.
So when the LinuxMCE install starts.  All the host addresses can not be resolved, resulting in a failed install.

I check the response from dig, but got none.  I could ping my router fine. 
I kept trying to ping ntp.ubuntu.com (the first host on the install) until for some reason it started to reply.


I immediately started the installation again, and no there have been no errors so far. (ongoing)
Fingers crossed this will be a successfull install, but I am expecting the DNS issue to come back and bite me later.

Time to dig up some info on dig, so I can work out what the problem may be.

-Pob

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Installation issues / Re: Recovering from a failed install

« on: February 17, 2010, 10:58:43 am »

xstart

returned

-bash: xstart: command not found

Maybe if I could read it might help.

startx works fine when typed correctly. 

Thanks again Tim.

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Installation issues / Re: Recovering from a failed install

« on: February 17, 2010, 10:51:37 am »

Further to the above,

I checked /etc/network/interfaces for an entry for eth0.  There was none.

So I added iface eth0 inet dhcp then tried sudo ifup eth0 again.
This time it initiated a broadcast for an ip address but failed to recieve one.

I did a check using ifconfig.
This time it lists eth0 as well as eth0:avahi.

eth0 is still showing nil for all packet stats except rx drops still rising.
eth0:avahi has the same hardware address as eth0.

If I can at least get the network connection going, I can try to run full-install.sh again.

Is anybody able to shed some light on this issue?
Any pointers will be gladly received.

Thanks,

Pob

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Installation issues / Re: Recovering from a failed install

« on: February 17, 2010, 09:44:30 am »

Thanks for the quick reply Tim.

sudo ifup eth0

returned

Ignoring unkown interface eth0=eth0

and

xstart

returned

-bash: xstart: command not found

Seems like I might need to dig a bit deeper.

When I do

ifconfig

it does list eth0 and lo

eth0 is listed as ethernet with a hardware address, UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST, all stats 0 except RX dropped is increasing.

Any ideas?

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Installation issues / Recovering from a failed install

« on: February 17, 2010, 07:03:02 am »

I have successfully installed kubuntu using the bottom option on 8.10b2 DVD and did the apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade.

I had not noticed that my internet interface eth0 had stopped working after rebooting.  It was working prior to updating kubuntu.

When I clicked the LinuxMCE icon on the destop, the installation started but returned quite a few errors due to not having an internet connection, I assume.

I have since rebooted the PC which now goes straight to the console prompt user@computername:~$
How can I get back to the kubuntu desktop from here?

I have tried to ping my router with no success.
How can I check and activate the configuration of eth0 from the console?  I have tried using the ifconfig command but am not too sure how to use this properly.  eth0 just needs to be DHCP.

If I can get this going I can try to re-run full-install.sh from the console instead.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Pob