CentOS - Feb 2008 - Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 fails on network.

Hi all,

After the latest lot of kernel security updates have come out, I updated one
of my colo boxes and rebooted. It didn't come back up and fails when booting
on:
	* CPU Microcode update
	* iptables
	* eth0

The booting process completes, however as you can imagine, there is no
network connectivity at all. The only config changes were installing the new
kernel. Booting back into 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 make things work 100% again.

The system is a dual P3 1Ghz with an e100 network card.

Has anyone else come across this?

Sadly, this is a headless box in an unattended colo - so I can't sit down
and reboot upon reboot to try and figure out the cause of the problem.

--
Steven Haigh

Email: netwiz at crc.id.au
Web: http://www.crc.id.au
Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897

> After the latest lot of kernel security updates have come out, I updated
one
> of my colo boxes and rebooted. It didn't come back up and fails when
booting
> on:
>         * CPU Microcode update
>         * iptables
>         * eth0
>
> The booting process completes, however as you can imagine, there is no
> network connectivity at all. The only config changes were installing the
new
> kernel. Booting back into 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 make things work 100% again.
I also got this type of probles once before. pls check initrd image.
pls performe below steps.

 gunzip -cd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.img |cpio -t |more and see

then, check your newly installed kernel. as below

 gunzip -cd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5.img |cpio -t |more and see

pls check what is missing. If found, All you have to make an initrd by
using mkinitrd command.

pls check below URL

http://readlist.com/lists/centos.org/centos/2/13952.html

-- 
Thank you
Indunil Jayasooriya