By devin
I have a Droplet that I have been trying to get access back to via eth0 however have failed at everything i have attempted to do. What happened was I updated my Droplet today to apply all patches to my CentOS 6.4 instance. It installed the latest kernel that came from the REPO and it removed the other kernels on the system. I did not realize that the Droplet doesn’t really use the kernels that is configured inside your Linux instance. The problem I am having is the kernels that are available to me from within the “Console” settings none of them work allowing me to have an eth0 device. I am assuming because on the boot it is looking for the kernel modules to exist inside my instance but they do not. Now that I no longer have Internet access I am unable to reinstall the kernel versions that I need to have there in order for the system to boot, so I am inbetween a rock and a hard place.
I don’t want to loose any data on my instance and I don’t see any easy way to either get my data moved off this instance onto another or to regain my “eth0” device so I can get it back onto the Internet.
If anyone can Help this would be great!!!
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This happened to me just today. I stopped my droplet, made a snapshot, then tried to bring it back up again. I could not SSH in. The console showed me that eth0 was not up. When I typed in the command:
ifup eth0
it told me “failed to bring up eth0.” I grepped around in the dmesg output, and found this line of interest:
[ 0.889859] virtio_net virtio0 ens3: renamed from eth0
Edited /etc/network/interfaces and changed eth0 to ens3 and viola!, ifup ens3 worked.
So it looks like the more modern kernels are changing the main interface names.
nice one dude, had a similar problem after a physical node failure and this one fixed it
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