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Re: [Vmware-release] erratic behavior of Athena VMs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Mar 20 17:53:15 2008
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From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:17:27 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:52:35 -0400
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Just a guess, but is it possible that when you re-built the VM it got
assigned a different MAC, and hence the pervious request you put in
wouldn't work since it is for the old MAC?
Jonathon
>
> Hi,
>
> Since my recent success at getting a dhcp-networked Athena VM working,
> I've run into erratic behavior I can't consistently reproduce:
>
> The VM I was running at work broke (due to something that was my
> fault), so I deleted it and attempted to recreate it exactly as I had
> originally done- I used the VM that BillC provided me, booted into
> single user mode to reset the root password with /usr/athena/bin/passwd,
> and edited /etc/athena/rc.conf appropriately (I set ADDR to dhcp since
> I had previously made a network request to set the machine up for dhcp).
> On reboot to multiuser mode, both network and AFS were broken and nothing
> I attempted would fix them.
>
> Taking Bill's advice that perhaps the player caches the location of
> the previously existing machine, I installed the new copy in a
> separate directory. Didn't help. I searched for all VMWare-related
> files on the host machine and deleted them, and reinstalled the
> player. Didn't help. Until this point, I had networking in the player
> set to bridged as it had been before. I tried NAT, and then network
> started working, but AFS was still broken (for reference, the Athena
> release level of the VM is 9.4.43, which I can't update further due to
> the rpm conflict I reported before between VMwarePlayer in newer Athena
> releases and VMwareTools in the VM).
>
> Next attempt: I deleted this VM, and copied a suspended VM on my home
> system that had been working perfectly there and copied it back to
> work (my Windows Vista test host machine at work, that is). It worked
> fine for about 4 hours (networking set to bridge), then network
> suddenly died for no obvious reason, taking AFS with it. I rebooted
> the VM (about all I could do at that point), and it's now working
> again (this is as of about 15 min. ago)...
>
> Alex
>
