| Summary: | Firstboot gethostbyaddr error | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Ari Inki <ari.inki> |
| Component: | firstboot | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 18:51:28 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 82061 *** Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030115 Description of problem: [mac@localhost mac]$ sudo cat /root/firstboot.1043848451.0 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/firstboot/firstbootWindow.py", line 153, in __init__ vbox, eventbox = module.launch() File "/usr/share/firstboot/modules/date.py", line 75, in launch self.setupScreen() File "/usr/share/firstboot/modules/date.py", line 64, in setupScreen self.datePage = date_gui.datePage(self.dateBackend) File "/usr/share/redhat-config-date/date_gui.py", line 171, in __init__ ntpServer = socket.gethostbyaddr(ntpServerIP)[0] TypeError: gethostbyaddr() argument 1 must be string, not None [mac@localhost mac]$ Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Red Hat 8.1 public beta (phoebe) on IBM ThinkPad 600E (DHCP and highest firewall settings w/ SSH enabled to come through) 2. During first startup 'firstboot' reports an error and a request to report the error to Red Hat. Actual Results: Firstboot reports an error Expected Results: Installation runs through smoothly and machine boots w/o any error messages. Additional info: