Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #879

[Kris <sigma9@earthling.net>]

At 03:36 17/05/1999 +0000, you wrote:
>A quick kludge that might fix your problem (it fixed it on my machine under
>hamm, and after I get done upgrading to slink, I'm going to try it there) is
>to kill inetd.  I think the problem revolves around the netbase script in
>the /etc/init.d folder trying to use ifwadm(or something like that) instead
>of ifchains(or something like that).  I still don't understand why this
>works or why the problem has never happened to me before now with the 2.2
>kernels under both hamm and slink, but thought this info might be of use to
>you.

Nope. inetd has been well and truly slaughtered, and nothing changes (even 
renamed it to make sure it didn't get restarted... call me strange).

Output of 'ps ax' while connected (after I've killed gpm, portmap & inetd):

init
[kflushd]
[kpiod]
[kswapd]
update
/sbin/syslogd
/sbin/klogd
/usr/sbin/atd
/usr/sbin/cron
-bash
-bash
/sbin/getty 38400 tty3
/sbin/getty 38400 tty4
/sbin/getty 38400 tty5
/sbin/getty 38400 tty6
tail -f /var/log/debug
/usr/sbin/pppd call provider
sh /etc/ppp/ip-up ppp0 /dev/ttyS2 115200 195.147.135.
run-parts /etc/ppp/ip-up.d
sh /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/exim
/usr/sbin/exim -qf
ps ax

Makes no difference whether I kill gpm/portmap or not. I do notice that the 
last digits are missing from the IP, though... but that's probably just 
running off the end of the screen or something (80 chars in total, 
including all the other columns, just as it would on-screen). I think Exim 
is waiting for my smarthost domain name to resolve (or I just didn't stay 
on long enough for it to finish anyway).

I also let the 0setserial script do my serial ports by itself -- it got my 
IRQs wrong, and set the I/0 to 0x03e8 (which is right), whereas I set it to 
0x3e8 (or the other way round; can't remember). That doesn't matter, though.

My HD is getting seriously warped with all this rebooting...

Anyone got any plausible ideas? (my phone bill's awful as it is)

Thanks,
  Kris

(oh, and I changed /etc/hosts -> splodge.org. Dunno why I said that.)