Upgrade to Debian testing hosed my system

[Mark Phillips]

OK, I have made some progress. There was an ATI Rage 128 video card in the
system, and the the newer Debians do not have the radeon drivers. I am
making that assumption, as I had the same issue with my laptop and had to
compile the radeon drivers when I updated a year ago to testing.

I removed the card, and now I get output from the video card on the
motherboard...yeah! I don't need the card in the current configuration as a
headless server.

However, the system hangs when trying to start network services. I rebooted
into rescue mode and these are the last few messages:

Configuring network interfaces...[  10.181311] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): etho:
link not ready
[10.184481] e1000: etho NIC Link is UP 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control:
RX/TX
[10.187930] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): ehto: link becomes ready

Then nothing is printed out and the system does not respond. I cannot get
to a

The card is the internal NIC - I don't have any extra cards in the machine.
The computer is an old Dell Optiplex GX260.

Thanks for any ideas you may have on how to get the machine back online!

Mark


On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Mike Ballon <mike.ballon at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you cannot get output to the monitor "at all", a live CD will do you no
> good.
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Mark Phillips <
> mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
>
>> I tried all sorts of F keys, and no response on the monitor. I am
>> wondering if there is something wrong with the driver. I had this problem
>> on a different machine, and I had to download, compile, and install a new
>> radeon driver. I can take the machine apart and see what the video card is
>> and see if that is a problem. Is there a way to fix a driver problem with a
>> live cd?
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Carruth, Rusty <
>> Rusty.Carruth at smartstoragesys.com> wrote:
>>
>>> If you hit control-alt-F1 (or F2 or … all the way to F6) do you see
>>> anything?****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> What happens on the monitor while you boot?****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> I’ve seen cases (personally) where an install decides the monitor can do
>>> more than it can (and I think I had an upgrade do that once also), leaving
>>> you with a dead monitor.****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> However, given that you cannot ssh into it I’ll bet that won’t be the
>>> case - but hopefully you can see something on the monitor as it boots…**
>>> **
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> Rusty****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> *From:* plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org [mailto:
>>> plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org] *On Behalf Of *Mark Phillips
>>> *Sent:* Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:21 AM
>>> *To:* Main PLUG discussion list
>>> *Subject:* Re: Upgrade to Debian testing hosed my system****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> Mike,****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, there is still no signal after a hard reboot. If there
>>> were, then I would do what you suggest. ****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> Any ideas on how I can determine what is wrong by using something like a
>>> knoppix cd?****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> Mark****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Mike Ballon <mike.ballon at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:****
>>>
>>> If there is no signal to the monitor with the box "up" I would reboot it.
>>> ****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> From there you'll need to figure out if the boot loader is intact or
>>> not. If it is you can boot into single user mode and try to figure out
>>> what's going on with the box. If you do not get the boot loader now we're
>>> talking about a repair to either the loader or the system as a whole using
>>> a disc or memory stick.****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/grub-boot-into-single-user-mode/****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Mark Phillips <
>>> mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> I used aptitude to upgrade a headless server from Debian stable to
>>> Debian testing. The upgrade did not generate any error messages, but when I
>>> rebooted I could not ssh into the box (connection refused) nor do I get any
>>> output on a monitor I attached to the box (no signal). Apache does not
>>> appear to be running either on the box (could not connect to the box). I
>>> can successfully ping the box.****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> Any suggestions on how to fix this this server would be greatly
>>> appreciated!****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> Thanks,****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> Mark ****
>>>
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