FAI and portmapper problems

[David Hausheer]

Hi all

I had exactly the same problem.

 > Solution: Run the following command before installing any packages like
 > ssh:
 >
 > ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
 >

I added this command in a script under /usr/local/share/fai/scripts just 
before the problem used to appear, but this didn't solve the problem in 
my case. I had to replace

ifup lo

with

ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 up

in /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/usr/sbin/fai, to make it work.

Any ideas, why the ifconfig statement has no impact when run from within 
a script under /usr/local/share/fai/scripts?

David

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