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Re: Why would Athena networking die when its virtual image is suspended
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Landry)
Thu Mar 13 21:44:38 2008
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From: Steve Landry <sml@MIT.EDU>
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I thought I saw a previous email from someone on my team (Greg?) noting
the impracticalities of running the cluster OS on a VM image.
~ Steve
William Cattey wrote:
> I'm gonna start off asking this question to Release Team, and then over
> time converge on the best place to ask such questions.
>
> Alex Prengel and I are experimenting with Athena in a VMware image.
> Yesterday he brought a problem to me that I have reproduced myself:
>
> Repeat by:
>
> Start Athena VMware image.
> Log in.
> Suspend image.
> Let sit over night.
> Resume image.
>
> Actual behavior:
>
> The network is down.
> AFS is dead.
> A little while later the panel disappears with the helpful message,
> "Killed"
> in the console window.
>
> Expected behavior:
>
> Suspend and resume a few minutes later gives a fully functioning Athena
> machine,
> picking up where I left off.
>
> I was able to recover by:
>
> su
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown eth0
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup eth0
> /etc/init.d/openafs stop
> /etc/init.d/openafs start
>
> But since panel had died I also had to log out and log back in.
>
> ----
>
> Might this be an interaction with if-plugd?
>
> I'm going to test to see if this is an RHEL 4 issue by doing an RHEL 4
> install and repeating the test (first without AFS, then with AFS.)
>
> I'd be grateful for conjectures as to what might be happening.
>
> -Bill
>
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>
> William Cattey
> Linux Platform Coordinator
> MIT Information Services & Technology
>
> N42-040M, 617-253-0140, wdc@mit.edu
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>
>
