Ok,
After stopping IP tables on the VPS, I was able to access the outside network and all the rest despite all the ugly error message s associated with network startup.
But then something strange happens:
1/ I had to launch ssh manually in the VPS (using vzctl exec)
1/ yum hangs. When we interrupt it with CTRL-C, here is the backtrace generated
[root@erp ~]# yum install vim
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 4, in <module>
import yum
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 40, in <module>
import rpmsack
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/rpmsack.py", line 22, in <module>
import misc
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/misc.py", line 13, in <module>
import tempfile
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/tempfile.py", line 33, in <module>
from random import Random as _Random
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/random.py", line 838, in <module>
_inst = Random()
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/random.py", line 94, in __init__
self.seed(x)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/random.py", line 108, in seed
a = long(_hexlify(_urandom(16)), 16)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/os.py", line 736, in urandom
bytes += read(_urandomfd, n - len(bytes))
KeyboardInterrupt
2/ rpm basic commands do not work. For instance rpm -q -a reports NOTHING !!! Trying install a RPM downloaded manually basically does NOTHING.
I am pretty confused.