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Bug 947216

Summary:	persist command does not work on /etc/hosts file after reboot.
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Josh Carter <jocarter>
Component:	ovirt-node	Assignee:	Fabian Deutsch <fdeutsch>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:
Priority:	urgent
Version:	6.4	CC:	acathrow, bsarathy, chetan, cpelland, cshao, fdeutsch, gouyang, hadong, huiwa, jboggs, jmann, leiwang, mburns, mkalinin, ovirt-maint, yaniwang, ycui
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Regression, ZStream
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	A previous fix which populated an empty /etc/hosts file with default entries also overwrote an /etc/hosts file populated with custom entries. Now, when ovirt-node detects that the /etc/hosts file contains custom entries, the file is persisted upon reboot.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2014-01-21 19:30:47 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:
Bug Blocks:	950136

Description Josh Carter 2013-04-01 20:24:58 UTC

Description of problem: Unable to make changes to the /etc/host file then persist it and have the file stay persisted after a reboot on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor release 6.4 (20130318.1.el6_4).


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor release 6.4 (20130318.1.el6_4)


How reproducible: Very


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor release 6.4 (20130318.1.el6_4)
2. Modify /etc/hosts
3. persist /etc/hosts
4. reboot
5. changes are not saved. 
  
Actual results:
Changes to /etc/hosts are lost after a reboot. 

Expected results:
Changes should show up after a system reboot. 

Additional info:

I had a lab hypervisor that has the bellow release on it and I was able to presist the /etc/hosts file successfully. 
/etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor release 6.3 (20121212.0.el6_3)

Updated to 

/etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor release 6.4 (20130318.1.el6_4)

Unable to persist the /etc/hosts file but able to persist /config/etc/hosts.

Comment 4 Josh Carter 2013-04-02 22:06:03 UTC

I can persist other files fine just not /etc/hosts.

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2014-01-21 19:30:47 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-0033.html