Robert Benjamin wrote:
On 3/27/2013 5:22 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Robert Benjamin benjie1@cox.net wrote:
Did you mean ping nytimes.com ?
tcpdump -A port 50 output is tcpdump: verbose output suppressed,use -v or -w for all protocol decode listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capturing size 65535 bytes, and a blinking cursor
which I
left for 20 min and re-started, tried with -v got listening on eth0, type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes. re-started and meant to use -w but forgot and just typed tcpdump. That gave tons of output which I can't fathom and let it go for 30 minutes. Re-started one more time and pinged nytimes.com That returned screenful of data
packets
all ok. Then shutdown til tomorrow.
I think he meant port 53 instead of 50 to catch the DNS exchange - which now sounds like it is working anyway. When you start, does gnome eventually work normally now?. I'd do a 'yum update' on general principles if you at least have the network running.
Thanks, Les, that was what I meant. I've been snowed under all week, and more so today: it's not one thing after another, it's three things all at the same time....
tcpdump with port 53 was no different than with port 50. Waited an hour after startup and still had that same bluescreen. Is that the gnome desktop screen? So no it doesn't eventually work. An hour is eventually right? :-) yum update installed 23 packages successfully. Should I re-instal again? It will be the 3rd time.
Mmmm, another nasty thought.... I just went, and found your original post, where you said you'd done an install using minimal. I'm, well, let us say underwhelmed by "minimal" - I have to add stuff on a headless server to get online.
What's your goal here - is it to have a working desktop environment? If so, and you have not done so yet, there's an option for desktop; I'd install that, though you can always choose that, then check "customize now", and add or subtract things.
With minimal... I'd have to sit at your keyboard and figure out what's missing.
mark