FAI and portmapper problems

[Henning Glawe]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 05:54:54PM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 17:46:45 +0200, David Hausheer <hausheer at tik.ee.ethz.ch> said:
> 
>     > Any ideas, why the ifconfig statement has no impact when run from within 
>     > a script under /usr/local/share/fai/scripts?
> It's just too late for starting the portmapper, since starting the
> portmapper is done before your script is executed. But try to activate
> the interface and to start the portmapper in your script.
> This should work and would be a nice workaround.

well, IMHO you are looking at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=312128
which is caused by a changed ifupdown. This new version is expecting the
interface status file at /dev/shm/network/ifstate, so the directory has to be
both existant and writable.

the patch I attached to the bug solves the problem for me: it bind-mounts
/tmp to /dev/shm/ and creates /dev/shm/network/ in create_ramdisk, so
ifupdown actually works.

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henning