[Voyage-linux] networking has broken

[Robert Rawlins - Think Blue]

Gustin, Wayne,

Thanks for the input on this guys. You're right that I have had this issue in the past, I've always struggled to find the root cause of it, it all does stem from the fact that we used to build our systems fixed in RW mode and likely a corruption occurred. In the past we've seen the issue when:

A) using a dodgy not properly wired network cable, after using this the system has then shown this issue.
B) when duplicating the card using DD.
C) when swapping the cf card in-between different system boards.

This defiantly appears to be a corruption issue of some type, I was unable to cat the file, however after removing and touching it the system is now able to boot onto the network. Just seems that this file in particular is prone to corruption, the rest of the FS appears to be just fine.

We now build our systems in RO which will put an end to this issue I hope, this is an old system though which was running RW, I'll rebuild it before sending it back out.

Cheers for the advice.

Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: Gustin Johnson [mailto:gustin at echostar.ca] 
Sent: 05 July 2009 02:08
To: Robert Rawlins - Think Blue
Cc: voyage-linux at voyage.hk
Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] networking has broken

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Robert Rawlins - Think Blue wrote:
> Hello Guys,
> 
>  
> 
> I’ve had a system returned to me from a client today which didn’t appear
> to be connecting to their network. I’ve connected the system here and it
> also does the same. I’ve booted and connected a serial cable to watch
> the process and note the following error being thrown during boot:
> 
>  
> 
> Activating swapfile swap...done.
> 
> Setting up networking.../etc/rcS.d/S39ifupdown: line 85:
> /etc/network/run/ifstate: Input/output error
> 
> Failure initializing /etc/network/run/ifstate failed!
> 
>  failed!
> 
> Configuring network interfaces...ifup: failed to open statefile
> /etc/network/run/ifstate: Input/output error

Does this file exist?  If it does can you delete it and the recreate it?
> 
> failed.
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> Can anyone suggest what this is? Or how it might be solved?
> 
Seems like a corrupt file or FS.  You may wish to do a full fsck on the
partition.

Hth,
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