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Arne
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Hello Guys,

Running 2006.0 I sometimes on boot have a problem with with initializing the firewire controller.

Verbose boot says "initializing fireware controller ohci1394" and the boot process stop for approc. 2 minutes. Other times it's complete fast. It seems this is random happening.

 

It shows up in LAN as eth1 which I do not use. I have tried to give it some unused IP address but it still occur at random.

 

How can I remedy this completely?????

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Hi Arne,

 

Just checking, although I'm sure you've probably done this. Have you applied all updates to the system?

 

I usually apply all Normal/System/Bug Fixes, and all working OK for me on 2006. Although I'm not using Firewire, but worth a shot if you've not tried it.

 

Other than that, can you check your /var/log/boot.log to see if it gives any more light as to why it's taking so long? If not maybe one of the other log files /var/log/syslog or messages perhaps. These are quite big, and might need a bit of hunting through to find an error relating to it. Also, check /var/log/dmesg too for some info that might relate to it.

 

That's all I can think of at the min!

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You can also tell the system not to start the controller at boot, AFAIK, by modifying the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 which in my case (incidentally for the firewire on my audigy2 soundcard) contains this:

DEVICE=eth1

BOOTPROTO=dhcp

ONBOOT=yes

 

Just change the 'yes' into 'no'.

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Hello again,

My digging into /va/log/syslog reveal some strange competition between Samba and something else "fighting" which one should the main browser for my LAN. When I installed 2006 the last time I did not tick the "server" and then later I downloaded and installed several packages which may compete. This maybe the reason ...or.

Some extracts show this: (please excuse the lenght)

Dec  4 10:26:39 linuxhost nmbd[6572]:  add_domain_logon_names:

Dec  4 10:26:39 linuxhost nmbd[6572]:  Attempting to become logon server for workgroup MDKGROUP on subnet 192.168.1.1

Dec  4 10:26:39 linuxhost nmbd[6572]: [2005/12/04 10:26:39, 0] nmbd/nmbd_logonnames.c:add_logon_names(163)

Dec  4 10:26:39 linuxhost nmbd[6572]:  add_domain_logon_names:

Dec  4 10:26:39 linuxhost nmbd[6572]:  Attempting to become logon server for workgroup MDKGROUP on subnet 192.168.1.2

Dec  4 10:26:39 linuxhost nmbd[6572]: [2005/12/04 10:26:39, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_browser_bcast(282)

Dec  4 10:26:39 linuxhost nmbd[6572]:  become_domain_master_browser_bcast:

Dec  4 10:26:39 linuxhost nmbd[6572]:  Attempting to become domain master browser on workgroup MDKGROUP on subnet 192.168.1.1

Dec  4 10:26:39 linuxhost nmbd[6572]: [2005/12/04 10:26:39, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_browser_bcast(295)

Dec  4 10:26:39 linuxhost nmbd[6572]:  become_domain_master_browser_bcast: querying subnet 192.168.1.1 for domain master browser on workgroup MDKGROUP

Dec  4 10:26:39 linuxhost nmbd[6572]: [2005/12/04 10:26:39, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_browser_bcast(282)

Dec  4 10:26:39 linuxhost nmbd[6572]:  become_domain_master_browser_bcast:

Dec  4 10:26:39 linuxhost nmbd[6572]:  Attempting to become domain master browser on workgroup MDKGROUP on subnet 192.168.1.2

Dec  4 10:26:39 linuxhost nmbd[6572]: [2005/12/04 10:26:39, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_browser_bcast(295)

Dec  4 10:26:39 linuxhost nmbd[6572]:  become_domain_master_browser_bcast: querying subnet 192.168.1.2 for domain master browser on workgroup MDKGROUP

------------------------------------------------------------break in listing

Dec  4 10:26:43 linuxhost nmbd[6572]: [2005/12/04 10:26:43, 0] nmbd/nmbd_logonnames.c:become_logon_server_success(124)

Dec  4 10:26:43 linuxhost nmbd[6572]:  become_logon_server_success: Samba is now a logon server for workgroup MDKGROUP on subnet 192.168.1.1

Dec  4 10:26:43 linuxhost nmbd[6572]: [2005/12/04 10:26:43, 0] nmbd/nmbd_logonnames.c:become_logon_server_success(124)

Dec  4 10:26:43 linuxhost nmbd[6572]:  become_logon_server_success: Samba is now a logon server for workgroup MDKGROUP on subnet 192.168.1.2

Dec  4 10:26:47 linuxhost nmbd[6572]: [2005/12/04 10:26:47, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_stage2(113)

Dec  4 10:26:47 linuxhost nmbd[6572]:  *****

Dec  4 10:26:47 linuxhost nmbd[6572]:

Dec  4 10:26:47 linuxhost nmbd[6572]:  Samba server LINUXHOST is now a domain master browser for workgroup MDKGROUP on subnet 192.168.1.1

Dec  4 10:26:47 linuxhost nmbd[6572]:

Dec  4 10:26:47 linuxhost nmbd[6572]:  *****

Dec  4 10:26:47 linuxhost nmbd[6572]: [2005/12/04 10:26:47, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_dmb.c:become_domain_master_stage2(113)

Dec  4 10:26:47 linuxhost nmbd[6572]:  *****

Dec  4 10:26:47 linuxhost nmbd[6572]:

Dec  4 10:26:47 linuxhost nmbd[6572]:  Samba server LINUXHOST is now a domain master browser for workgroup MDKGROUP on subnet 192.168.1.2

Dec  4 10:26:47 linuxhost nmbd[6572]:

Dec  4 10:26:47 linuxhost nmbd[6572]:  *****

------------------------------------------------------------------break in listing

 

Dec  4 10:27:02 linuxhost nmbd[6572]: [2005/12/04 10:27:02, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_lmb.c:become_local_master_stage2(396)

Dec  4 10:27:02 linuxhost nmbd[6572]:  *****

Dec  4 10:27:02 linuxhost nmbd[6572]:

Dec  4 10:27:02 linuxhost nmbd[6572]:  Samba name server LINUXHOST is now a local master browser for workgroup MDKGROUP on subnet 192.168.1.1

Dec  4 10:27:02 linuxhost nmbd[6572]:

Dec  4 10:27:02 linuxhost nmbd[6572]:  *****

 

192.168.1.1 = linux on dual boot PC which should act as server for

192.168.1.4 = notebook with mdv 10.1. Both with static protocol

192.168.1.2 = I have given the eth1 this name in order to not interfere with eth0, my LAN

 

Can any one shed light on this and how to remedy it????????

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