Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 11:01:14 -0500 (EST) From: "J. Seth Henry" <jshamlet@comcast.net> To: Dan Pelleg <daniel+bsd@pelleg.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhclient acts odd with read-only '/' & other questions about /dev Message-ID: <20030404105938.O80249-100000@whitetower.gambrl01.md.comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <u2s3ckywjll.fsf@gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
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Dan, That's an interesting idea on the resolv.conf, but /var/db is on a writable file-system. I'll try creating a symlink to a copy of resolv.conf in /usr/local/etc and see if that clears things up. Thanks, Seth Henry On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Dan Pelleg wrote: > "J. Seth Henry" <jshamlet@comcast.net> writes: > > > Ok, I think I just qualified for an idiot award. After a little more > > poking around, I discovered that it was the read-only filesystem that was > > causing the problem. I rebuilt the microdrive image, and included a > > special /dev this time - which I mount over the original /dev. Now, I > > don't seem to be having any problems with sshd. > > > > Unfortunately, I appear to have made my dhclient problem worse. Now, it > > hangs, producing volumes of log data like this: > > > > Apr 3 17:52:45 dhclient: New IP Address (aue0): 192.168.1.5 > > Apr 3 17:52:45 dhclient: New Subnet Mask (aue0): 255.255.255.0 > > Apr 3 17:52:45 dhclient: New Broadcast Address (aue0): 192.168.1.255 > > Apr 3 17:52:45 dhclient: New Routers: 192.168.1.254 > > Apr 3 17:52:45 dhclient: New Network Number: 192.168.1.0 > > Apr 3 17:52:45 dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 192.168.1.255 > > Apr 3 17:52:45 dhclient: New IP Address (aue0): 192.168.1.5 > > Apr 3 17:52:45 dhclient: New Subnet Mask (aue0): 255.255.255.0 > > Apr 3 17:52:45 dhclient: New Broadcast Address (aue0): 192.168.1.255 > > Apr 3 17:52:45 dhclient: New Routers: 192.168.1.254 > > > > I have to hit CTRL-C to get a login... > > > > I tried running dhclient under truss, but it gives me a segmentation fault > > before getting very far. It doesn't seem to be attempting to write to > > files on a read-only filesystem though. I can post the output of truss if > > anyone is interested. > > > > I don't remember the history of this thread, but my first thought > would be that it's probably trying to update /etc/resolv.conf and/or > /var/db/dhclient.leases > > I don't think a failure to update resolv.conf would result in > this behaviour. But for dhclient.leases, it might. > > Advance warning: if you're using ntp, you will have a similar > issue for ntp.drift. > > -- > > Dan Pelleg >
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