Bug 878540

Summary:	problem to make /etc/hosts persistent
Product:	[Retired] oVirt	Reporter:	Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi>
Component:	ovirt-node	Assignee:	Mike Burns <mburns>
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Version:	3.1 GA	CC:	acathrow, dyasny, jboggs, mburns, mgoldboi, ovirt-bugs, ovirt-maint
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Description Gianluca Cecchi 2012-11-20 16:32:31 UTC

Description of problem:
/etc/hosts doesn't persist

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ovirt-node-iso-2.5.5-0.1.fc17.iso

# cat /etc/redhat-release
oVirt Node Hypervisor release 2.5.5 (0.1.fc17)

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. edit /etc/hosts
2. reboot the oVirt Node
3. edit /etc/hosts
  
Actual results:
it doesn't contain previous modifications

Expected results:
it contains previous modifications

Additional info:

On oVirt Node:
# persist /etc/hosts
File already persisted: /etc/hosts

But actually at reboot my modification is not there again....

Comment 1 Mike Burns 2013-02-05 21:32:21 UTC

http://gerrit.ovirt.org/11771

a previous patch introduced this regression.  We require some form of /etc/hosts and the script to write the minimal one was checking if the file was empty instead of not empty

Comment 2 Mike Burns 2013-02-06 14:02:33 UTC

merged and available in the next release