On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 04:00:08PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Tony Rowe writes: > > This is correct. Pppconfig configures PPP connections: think of it as a > highly specialized editor. The connection being configured may be one of > several, and one of the others (or some other process) may be active and > may have edited /etc/resolv.conf. If pppconfig did as you suggest it could > screw up a running system. Instead, the pppconfig package installs scripts > which adjust /etc/resolv.conf as required when the connection is brought > up, after making checks to be sure that that is wanted.
Understood. Thanks. > > Therefore configure apt barfs... > > I have nothing here to do a test install on (and no CD burner anyway). Is > the installer assuming that the connection is up and doing a DNS lookup? Yes, that is correct. The connection is up in fact (I have an external modem and the lights indicate - as does /var/log/syslog - that the connection is up) but the DNS lookup fails. The installer (rc-3 netinst iso) step after running pppconfig is, "Configure Apt". If http or ftp is chosen here, a list of mirrors is presented. When a mirror is chosen the installer writes the selection to /etc/apt/sources.list. The installer then brings up a connection and tries to update and upgrade the new system using apt - but the DNS lookup fails and an error message saying apt failed displays to the installer screen. At the point of failure (while the connection is still up) there is no /etc/resolv.conf file. Also, if I bring the connection down manually (by running poff as root), there is no /etc/resolv.conf file. Pppconfig is run in the second stage of the installer process (base-config) - after rebooting into the new system. However the main "Configure the Network" takes place in the first stage of the install. For "Configure the Network" a list of ethernet cards (drivers) is presented. I select "none" as no ethernet card is installed in my test system. Apparently this leaves the new system without an /etc/resolv.conf file even though the resolv.conf manpage does exist. Thunderstorm here and I have no protection from surges or outages. I'll have to leave off for a while... Tony -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
