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From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] environment: container: Do not remount network files as
	read-only.
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 12:49:31 -0400
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To: Drew C <me@drewc.ca>
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On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Drew C <me@drewc.ca> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 7:06 AM, Thompson, David <dthompson2@worcester.ed=
u>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> wro=
te:
>> > "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu> skribis:
>> >
>> >> I noticed that 'guix environment --container --network' didn't work o=
n
>> >> an Ubuntu machine I was on, and the culprit was remounting things lik=
e
>> >> /etc/resolv.conf read-only after the initial bind mount.
>
>
>
> One thing that I have run across is the following :
>
> $ cat /etc/resolv.conf
> # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by
> resolvconf(8)
> #     DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
> nameserver 127.0.1.1
>
> It re-writes that file every time a new network connection is made.
>
> $ man resolvconf
> [...]
> DESCRIPTION
>        The resolvconf package comprises a simple database for  run-time
> name=E2=80=90
>        server information and a simple framework for notifying applicatio=
ns
> of
>        changes in that information.  Resolvconf thus sets  itself  up  as
> the
>        intermediary  between  programs  that supply nameserver informatio=
n
> and
>        applications that use that information.
> [...]
>
> I am not at all sure if this is the cause of the issue, but I have run in=
to
> it many times before with WiFi and me trying to edit it to 8.8.8.8, so I
> figure this is a decent time to bring it up.

Interesting!  Is this on Ubuntu as well?

- Dave