Bug 229670 – anaconda does not bring up loopback device during install

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Bug 229670 - anaconda does not bring up loopback device during install

Summary:	anaconda does not bring up loopback device during install

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	anaconda (Show other bugs)
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Version:	rawhide
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	David Cantrell
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Reported:	2007-02-22 12:15 EST by Orion Poplawski
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:11 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2007-03-06 15:54:05 EST
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Description Orion Poplawski 2007-02-22 12:15:31 EST

Doing a PXE/kickstart/NFS install of rawhide from 20070222.  The loopback device
is not configured.  This prevents me from mounting an nfs directory in %post
because the mount.nfs command tries to contact the local portmap server via the
loopback address.

Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2007-02-22 12:33:08 EST

David - looks like lo is configured, but not brought up.  Similar to other
issues we've had with regular interfaces.

Orion - for now you should be able to work around this with a quick "ifconfig lo
up" at the beginning of your %post script.

Comment 2 David Cantrell 2007-03-06 15:54:05 EST

Yeah, the netlink API is not friendly past kernel 2.6.17.  Rewrote
initLoopback() to use ioctl() and it's working now.

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