From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: bug#22209: name resolution failures in installer image Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 03:45:06 -0500 Message-ID: <20151219084506.GA17560@jasmine> References: <56750F99.80007@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46886) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAD9S-0006wG-84 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 03:46:07 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAD9P-0002Nc-19 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 03:46:06 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:48621) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aAD9O-0002NU-BZ for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 03:46:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aAD9O-0002hT-0z for bug-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Dec 2015 03:46:02 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56750F99.80007@gmx.net> List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Florian Paul Schmidt Cc: 22209@debbugs.gnu.org On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 09:04:41AM +0100, Florian Paul Schmidt wrote: > After booting the installer image, doing the ifconfig/dhclient dance, > preparing the target fs, mounting it and starting the guix system init > invocation at some point in time, though not predictably so, but > usually after a couple of minutes (about 10 or so) name resolution > will start to fail causing guix system init to fail. A little more information: I was installing on i686 bare metal from the current USB installation image. I installed vim in the installation environment, and then when I tried to run `guix system init...` I couldn't resolve hydra.gnu.org, google.com, and a few other sites. I could resolve the domain famulari.name, but not another domain that points to the same machine. I installed dig and could successfully query the nameserver described in /etc/resolv.conf for hydra.gnu.org. I never have name resolution problems on this network with my other machines. I decided to edit /etc/hosts so I could continue with the installation. If anyone has any ideas about how to debug this, I'm happy to help.