RE: [cobalt-users] Qube 2 loses IP, and reboots over and over...

["Doug Forman" <doug@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hawke,

I'm afraid I don't have good news for your either.

After fooling around with it for a couple hours, finding the magic
"press-and-hold-the-password-reset-button-while-powering-on" secret
combination to enable the serial port for console, making a null-modem
cable, and connecting another computer running terminal software, I was
successful.  As the Qube2 booted, I saw console messages flash across my
terminal window, ending in a list of menu choices.

Which solved nothing.

The menu looked manufacturing related.  I saw nothing like a
boot-to-single-user prompt, or any other way to get a regular system prompt
be able to type linux commands.

Maybe I missed something - this seems to be highly un-documented territory -
I was expecting something similar to the "rescue" functionality that is
provided with most linux distros.

In the end, I disconnected serial port and dismissed the console port
feature as unusable in the field.

FYI,

Doug

---
Doug Forman, MCSE, MCSD (doug@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Qube-Chat Moderator (qube-chat-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxx)


> We have a PRODUCTION!!!! (I don't know who the idiot was that put this
> in place!).
> Qube 2 that has gone on the fritz.
> When iot reboots, it boots up showing the IP on the LCD as 0.0.0.0, also
> the Primary network interface link light only blinks for a few seconds
> when the box first powers on, then the link light goes out (and stays
> out).
> So I then choose "Select"
> "Setup Network"
> "Enter"
> And low and behold, the IP info I put in is still there, so I hit Enter
> (all this is on the LCD of course).
> for the IP, ad Enter for the subnet mask, and enter for the gateway,
> then
> "Y" to [S]ave.
> It then shows
> "Verifying and Saving"
> then starts shutting down services, then the link light comes on, and
> the ip can respond to pings, until it finishes shutting down, and starts
> it boot up procedure all over again.  THIS IS UNBELIVEABLE!!!!   Is it
> going into some sort of single user mode?  Unfortunately whoever
> designed the the box, and added the serial port, only made the port
> usable for a modem to be hooked up, rather than use their head, and make
> a console pot available.  Sheesh!!!
> Please, does anyone know how to break out of this cycle?
> I already tried Network Reset,  resetting the admin password through the
> papareclip port.
> I'm ot of ideas, it's Saturday, this has caused thousands of dolloars of
> lost revenue (I finally ripped the box out, and setup a Digital PC to ge
> by, but I just want to know the answer to this issue.  We have two
> qubes, and putting the HD in the other behaves exactly the same way, so
> something in the startup scripts must be wreakin this havoc.
> Oh for a console port!
> Help!
> -Hawke
>
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