Dual NIC = hang

[Robin Lee Powell]

That seems strange to me, since initramfs-tools isn't where the
problem script lives; the problem script comes from live-initramfs

-Robin

On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 10:51:24PM -0500, Choate, Jon wrote:
> We were able to solve this by downloading the initramfs-tools-92m deb,
> chrooting into the nfs root, installing it, running update-initramfs,
> exiting and then copying the initrd file created in
> /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/boot to /srv/tftp/fai/. This
> version of the tools uses the much more sensible configure_networking
> function rather than directly calling ipconfig.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-fai-bounces at uni-koeln.de
> [mailto:linux-fai-bounces at uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of Robin Lee Powell
> Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 10:11 PM
> To: linux-fai at uni-koeln.de
> Subject: Re: Dual NIC = hang
> 
> On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 01:21:27PM +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > > Thank you for that, sincerely.
> > > 
> > > However, I keep asking whether any of these workarounds are
> > > going to make it into FAI mainline, and people keep sending me
> > > more workarounds, which is not what I was asking about!
> > > 
> > 
> > As far as I can tell, it's really not a problem of FAI, but an
> > issue in initramfs. I thus doubt that "it will make it into FAI
> > mainline".
> 
> After a stupendous amount of research, I've figured out what you
> meant.  :)  Sorry about that.  I'm coming into this not
> understanding FAI internal at all.
> 
> The problem appears to be with
> /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/live inside of the live-initramfs
> package, which calls ipconfig without a -t option.
> 
> I tried to make a workaround, but it fails badly:
> 
>     Running: ipconfig -t 10 eth0
>     IP-Config: eth0 hardware address 00:e0:81:45:ed:8a mtu 1500 DHCP
> RARP
>     [   25.776115] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> 
> What it was actually running:
> 
>     echo "Running: ipconfig -t 10 ${DEVICE}"
>     ipconfig -t 10 ${DEVICE} || echo "ipconfig -t 10 ${DEVICE} failed" |
> tee /netboot.config
> 
> I don't understand how that caused a kernel panic, and I don't know
> enough of the internals to have a reasonable chance of figuring it
> out in a reasonable amount of time; suggestions welcome.
> 
> -Robin
> 
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They say:  "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons."
And I'm thinking:  "Does it even occur to you to try for something
other than the default outcome?" -- http://shorl.com/tydruhedufogre
http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/