I know this is not so much a webmin or virtualmin thing, but on my box that normally runs them, I got into serious troubles today and I’m hoping the solution, or at least the approach of solving this problem is just a normal logical step for one of you (while I just don’t know…). Here it is:
Hi,
my server is not booting right and i’m in troubles now…
it’s a 6.06 ubuntu server (don’t ask). It hasn’t been rebooted for quite some months, but today it hung and I had to reboot it.
It’s at fasthosts.co.uk, and I’ve got some ‘vkm’ (java) remote control for it.
Rebooting didn’t ‘start’ the server as it should, as no sites were accessible. None of the services were accessible, not ssh, not ftp etc etc
with the vkm remote controle i could see what was going on, I get a console and see the server as if it’s local.
The last thing it does when starting up, is showing that it’s started Postfix [ok] and then nothing.
If I hit enter then, I can login. Internally, it then seems all fine and services are up and running.
webmin wasn’t, but was easy to start. With ‘links’ I can see it works on https://127.0.0.1:10101.
However, it can’t ping outside or see external websites. From outside, nothing can see the server either.
My questions:
How do I find out what the server is supposed to be doing after loading Postfix, as that’s where the problem might be?
What could cause this communication problem?
Iptables is empty at this stage, no rules
If I type: ping http://www.google.com it says: unknown host http://www.google.com
It’s unable to resolve anything outside. Looks like a DNS issue then, doesn’t it?
netstat -nr gives empty result.
If I type ifconfig, i get this at inet6 addr:
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
as if something’s missing, no?
And then there’s this:
ifup -a
- if-up.d/mountnfs[eth0]: waiting for interface eth0:0 before doing NFS mount:SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address
Does anybody have an idea what I should do next?
Thanks!
(almost panicking for not having this server up and running…)
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