Bug#740998: problems with rdnssd and network-manager both installed in jessie

2016-03-30 Thread Santiago Ruano Rincón
El 11/10/15 a las 23:29, Dominic Hargreaves escribió:
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 05:45:05PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > On Sun, 2015-10-11 at 16:50 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 01:36:05AM +, Debian Bug Tracking System 
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > >  ndisc6 (1.0.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium
> > > >  .
> > > >* QA upload.
> > > >* Set maintainer to the Debian QA Group (see #713004).
> > > >* Add conflicts between rdnssd and network-manager (closes: #740998).
> > > 
> > > This bug just hit me in Debian stable (as it happens, it appeared to
> > > be a particularly severe form where /etc/resolv.conf was wiped out
> > > altogether; perhaps some sort of race condition?)

...

Hi,

My stable powerpc machine got also hit by this. It was installed a
couple of months ago, but maybe the problem appeared after my internet
provider made some IPv6 changes. rdnssd's merge-hook just replaces
/etc/resolv.conf with an empty file.

Neither resolvconf nor network-manager were installed on the machine, so
I don't think conflicting against network-manager solves the issue.

Playing inside a temporal directory, the patch provided by Pierre at
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=767071#43 seems to
work fine:
http://git.remlab.net/gitweb/?p=ndisc6.git;a=blob_plain;f=rdnssd/merge-hook.in;hb=f7bd3662d2292e248173721d4760c03df39df666

Cheers,

Santiago


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Bug#740998: problems with rdnssd and network-manager both installed in jessie

2015-10-11 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 05:45:05PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-10-11 at 16:50 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 01:36:05AM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > 
> > >  ndisc6 (1.0.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium
> > >  .
> > >* QA upload.
> > >* Set maintainer to the Debian QA Group (see #713004).
> > >* Add conflicts between rdnssd and network-manager (closes: #740998).
> > 
> > This bug just hit me in Debian stable (as it happens, it appeared to
> > be a particularly severe form where /etc/resolv.conf was wiped out
> > altogether; perhaps some sort of race condition?)
> > 
> > I'm not sure why rdnssd was installed at all. I can't see any mention
> > of it in debian-installer, and not a single package Depends or Recommends
> > it. Morever it was installed without resolvconf (which I suspect would
> > have mitigated this issue), despite it recommending resolvconf, and no
> > change to the default of installing recommends having taken place.
> > 
> > Release team; would you consider a QA upload of this package targetted
> > at stable, fixing this bug in the same way that Michael fixed it in
> > unstable - this will hopefully stop others having the experience of
> > having networking break on a freshly installed Debian system every 20
> > minutes or so.
> 
> This was previously discussed in #778492, where there was some concern
> from the installer side as to possible side effects of the change. CCing
> -boot to see what current thoughts are.

Oh, right. It seems that that bug got closed because noone had a suitable
test environment? I hereby volunteer to test a test d-i with this bug
fixed on the network where I experienced the problem in jessie.

Cheers,
Dominic.