Package: fai
Version: 2.8.4
Severity: important
When trying to install a VMWare guest via fai and a fixed IP address on
eth0, the installation stalls after "get-boot-info" is called.
Specifically, the get-boot-info script, in order to find the available
interfaces, calls "ifconfig up" for the first 5 interfaces via:
local dev devices
devices=$(seq 0 1 4)
for dev in $devices; do
ifconfig eth$dev up 2>/dev/null &&
netdevices_all="$netdevices_all eth$dev"
done
The vmware vlance driver seems not to like that, as it then looses its
network configuration and thus the root filesystem via NFS is also lost.
The installing host can not be reached from the network anymore, the
installation fails.
If I change the code to leave the first interface alone (workaround), ie:
local dev devices
devices=$(seq 1 1 4)
for dev in $devices; do
ifconfig eth$dev up 2>/dev/null &&
netdevices_all="$netdevices_all eth$dev"
done
then the installation resumes.
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Lukas Efler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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