Bug 204646
| Summary: | mkinitrd broken by new version of /usr/bin/host for nfs-mounted root fs - fix included | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Alexander Aminoff <aminoff> |
| Component: | mkinitrd | Assignee: | Peter Jones <pjones> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5 | CC: | triage |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | bzcl34nup | ||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2008-05-06 16:16:55 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Argh. Please ignore all references to the NFS server being specified by IP. NFS server being specified by IP does not work; that is a different bug - test with NFS server specified by name, e.g: store2.nber.org:/vol/vol1/Fedora-5-test / nfs defaults 1 1 This should already be fixed in rawhide mkinitrd. Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted on. We appreciate the time you took to report this issue and want to make sure no important bugs slip through the cracks. If you're currently running a version of Fedora Core between 1 and 6, please note that Fedora no longer maintains these releases. We strongly encourage you to upgrade to a current Fedora release. In order to refocus our efforts as a project we are flagging all of the open bugs for releases which are no longer maintained and closing them. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LifeCycle/EOL If this bug is still open against Fedora Core 1 through 6, thirty days from now, it will be closed 'WONTFIX'. If you can reporduce this bug in the latest Fedora version, please change to the respective version. If you are unable to do this, please add a comment to this bug requesting the change. Thanks for your help, and we apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point. The process we are following is outlined here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp We will be following the process here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this doesn't happen again. And if you'd like to join the bug triage team to help make things better, check out http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers This bug is open for a Fedora version that is no longer maintained and will not be fixed by Fedora. Therefore we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen thus bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |
Description of problem: mkinitrd fails when the root file system (as specified in fstab) is nfs-mounted (possibly only if the NFS server is specified by IP address) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mkinitrd-5.0.32-1.src.rpm How reproducible: yes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a test fstab file with a line for root that looks like this: 66.251.72.43:/vol/vol1/Fedora-5-test / nfs defaults 1 1 2. mkinitrd --fstab=/path/to/test-fstab test-initrd <version> Actual results: Error: an inet prefix is expected rather than "pointer". unable to find network device configuration for /sbin/mkinitrd: line 388: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-: No such file or directory bootproto not specified for Expected results: Additional info: This happens because it used "host" to get its own IP address. host used to just return the IP address. Now it also returns "...mail is handled by..." for MX records. So the cut command returns info from the last line, which is not what you want. The following diff fixes the problem: 661c661 < remoteip=$(host $remote | cut -d ' ' -f 4) --- > remoteip=$(host $remote | grep 'has address' | cut -d ' ' -f 4) Also, while you are at it, you might want to modify the Description field of the mkinitrd rpm to take out the reference to LILO, since LILO is no longer a default option under FC5.