Created attachment 403412 [details] Patch to parse /etc/nsswitch.conf properly. +++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #537217 +++ I'm PXE booting systems with an NFS root filesystem. What I would expect to be able to do is something like: append initrd=f12-x86_64-net/initrd.img root=nfs:fileserver:/potatoes/f12-x86_64-net which fails. Booting with rdbreak set and using the emergency shell and running ip -r route shows ip is unable to resolve the name of the default route. The problem is that on the ram disk, /lib/libnss_* includes lib/libnss_files-2.11.1.so, lib/libnss_nisplus-2.11.1.so, lib/libnss_files.so.2 and lib/libnss_nisplus.so.2, but NOT lib/libnss_mdns4_minimal.so.2 or lib/libnss_dns-2.11.1.so. This in turn is due to the dracut nfs install mishandling the NOFOUND tag when it parses /etc/nsswitch.conf. There will be no problem experienced if NOFOUND is not used, but the distributed nsswitch.conf does use NOTFOUND. Patch attched.
dracut-005-4.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dracut-005-4.fc13
dracut-005-4.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dracut-005-4.fc12
dracut-005-4.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update dracut'. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dracut-005-4.fc12
dracut-005-5.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
dracut-005-5.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.