Bug 7081
Summary: | tries and fails to access "hdb" for some reason... | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | banibrata dutta <bdutta> |
Component: | ppp | Assignee: | Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin> |
Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 6.1 | ||
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Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2002-12-14 01:28:20 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
banibrata dutta
1999-11-17 19:01:21 UTC
This is an IDE error, I believe. What device do you have on hdb? i do not have the CDROM as hdb, but why should that cause a problem...?? and why does this come up (100% reproducibly) when i try to fire up a PPP connection to my ISP... I'm not sure I understand what you meant when you said:
>i do not have the CDROM as hdb, but why should that cause a problem...??
My supposition is that either
a) you have bad sectors or some other error on the hard drive that
has the pppd daemon or one of the other scripts or programs used
to set up a PPP connection, or
b) you have used hdparm or irqtune and the new settings do not work
well with an active serial session.
When you installed, did you tell the install program to check for
bad sectors?
what happens is that, if i boot my system without a CD in the drive, it keeps giving the prints on console (shit+alt+f1 to f6 all have this cribbage on...) but the moment i put in a CD it stops... i have installed the regular RH6.1 ... and hbd has no question of bad sectors i guess, as it is CD... (:-/) You said before that you do NOT have your cdrom as hdb. Which is it? This is very likely a result of running magicdev as part of your GNOME session. It polls the CD-ROM drive, checking for a disc, and if it detects one, it mounts it under /mnt/cdrom. This is normal. If you want to remove magicdev, you can remove the package by running "rpm -e magicdev" as root, or you can just prevent it from starting by selecting "Settings->Session Manager Properties..." from the GNOME menu, selecting the line that lists "magicdev" in the "Program" column, pressing the "Remove" button, and pressing "OK". Please let us know if this solves your problem. the problem seems to have dissapeared by just upgrading the ppp package, which is most unlikely - even to me. also, there seems to be an associated problem, atleast related to ppp... thru PPP i do a script based login to my ISP...by even after pressing the "Continue" button on the terminal-confirmation button, which is supposed to bring up the route, set the default gateway and after starting "pppd"... is failing somewhere. i do see a default gateway, but even with it "ping" doesn't work... but when i open the "kppp" detail's window, and then do a "/sbin/route add default gw <IP-addr-assigned-to-me-by-ISP>", is works... i.e. i have to do this manual exercise... is this a bug... ?? or what...? This is unusual. When you look at the routing table with "/sbin/route -n", does the default route indeed go through the PPP interface? If not, you can open /etc/sysconfig/network with a text editor and remove the GATEWAY and GATEWAYDEV variables, which will prevent the bogus default route from being added and allow pppd to do the right thing. |