broken dhcp after update, other broken things
Timothy Murphy
tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Sat Dec 2 09:26:39 UTC 2006
> Last weekend I upgraded three computers to FC6 with varying results (took
> a very long time on the laptop).
>
> This week I updated each to the latest updates and installed some files
> from
> extras like octave and xmms. I have been having nothing but trouble since
> then.
>
> Laptop (x86064): wireless won't connect unless I manually run
> kwifimanager -- may be fixed now
> change profile to wired, plug in cable to NIC, it hangs on
> trying to get a DHCP lease
>
> Desktop1 (x86-64): won't boot now, hangs on trying to get a DHCP lease
>
> Desktop1 (Athlon): complained about not finding
> /etc/selinux/targeted/policy...
> -- booted single user with selinux=0, found selinux-policy-targeted
> was
> missing
> -- yum installed selinux-policy-targeted
> -- reboots fine but selinux is off, gets lease from firewall w/o
> problems
>
> Firewall is WRK54G (yes, the broken one, has to be reset every few days).
>
> How can I fix DHCP with my two 64-bit machines? Any suggestions?
Maybe dhcpd is not running?
Maybe /etc/dhcpd.conf is incorrect?
What do you read in /var/log/messages about attempts to connect
(DHCPREQUEST, etc)?
--
Timothy Murphy
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s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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