On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 08:59:52AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > More details. > > The target system is pxe booted and next-server takes it to a (debian) > > system running tftpd-hpa. The defaults.cfg has lots of boot targets > > but the one I have been testing with is the netboot image, in manual > > install mode. The only boot options it is given are > > 'append vga=normal initrd=yadayada' > > It also falls over if I feed it a preseed file, where we use > > 'append auto=true priority=critical vga=normal initrd=yadayda > > url=blahdeblah' > > Thanks for the details. Here in a QEMU VM, both work fine.
I learned today that this whole goose chase started when a colleague hit this using qemu and bridged networking. Before today I thought it was real hardware. I tried this with vmware fusion, setting next-server to the pxe server used above and the manual/interactive installer target. I was using NATted networking here; resolv.conf lists only the vmware nameserver (172.16.119.2). busybox segfaults at the same time and in the same way. If I test with wget or ping, I get a segfault unless I use IP addresses or add the hostname I want to resolve to /etc/hosts. I tried patching the initrd so that the hostname and lookup could be pre-configured. /etc/nsswitch.conf comes through unscathed but /etc/hosts is overwritten. When I hit the segfault I added the necessary /etc/hosts entry and retried. That worked; I was able to do a complete installation. I also figured out how to use netcat to get the log file. I've attached the syslog up to the first segfault, with DEBCONF_DEBUG=5. Vince
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