make-fai-nfsroot and dhcp3-client

[amy at real-time.com]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 02:19:59PM -0600, amy at real-time.com (amy at real-time.com) wrote:
> All of a sudden, on a working fai server, when I run make-fai-nfsroot
> -v, I see this:
> 
> Setting up dhcp3-client (3.0+3.0.1rc9-2.2) ...
> 
> Configuration file `/etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf'
>  ==> File on system created by you or by a script.
>  ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
>    What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
>     Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
>     N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
>       D     : show the differences between the versions
>       Z     : background this process to examine the situation
>  The default action is to keep your current version.
> *** dhclient.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? dpkg: error processing
> dhcp3-client (--configure):
>  EOF on stdin at conffile prompt
> 
> 
> ...and at the very end this:
> 
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  dhcp3-client
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> Removing `diversion of /sbin/discover to /sbin/discover.distrib by fai'
> 
> 
> It looks like the problem is that NFSROOT/etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf is
> different from the one the package wants to install, but I can't figure
> out where it's copying dhclient.conf from.
> 
> I'm running the latest 2.5.1.
> 
> Any ideas?  Thanks.

I fixed this by adding dhcp-client to FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS.  I think FAI 
is copying the wrong dhclient.conf file.

-- 
Amy Tanner
amy at real-time.com