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Re: [Cooker] Network cannot resolve dns addresses again after last nights update

by Steve Morris-5 :: Rate this Message:

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Frank Griffin wrote:

> Steve Morris wrote:
>> After last nights urpmi --auto-update terminated about half way
>> through, the network can no longer resolve dns addresses from dhcp
>> and the nameserver entry has been removed.
>
> Assuming that you don't have some manual, i.e. non-urpmi, procedure in
> your update sequence, the fact that this only seems to happen to you
> would suggest that you have some old, essentially unmaintained,
> package installed that no one else does, and that its RPM scripts are
> at fault.
>
> All I can suggest (other than a search of the package sources for
> "resolv") is to capture the output of your updates over time, and look
> for either signs that resolv.conf is being modified, or packages that
> are changed only in the problem cases.
Thanks Frank, I will check it out. This system started as a fresh
install of 2007.0, and was updated via cooker ever since, so it is
possible there is some old package there somewhere.

regards,
Steve


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