From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: NetworkManager instead of Wicd in =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=98%desktop?= =?utf-8?Q?-services=E2=80=99=3F?= Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2017 22:56:58 +0200 Message-ID: <87y3qxlomd.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87iniaf06l.fsf@gnu.org> <87bmo1ltus.fsf@netris.org> <87k22p6mhf.fsf@gnu.org> <87bmnw6khx.fsf@netris.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37197) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1de689-00022B-UK for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 16:57:07 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1de686-00050g-Sk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Aug 2017 16:57:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87bmnw6khx.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Fri, 04 Aug 2017 00:10:34 -0400") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Mark H Weaver Cc: guix-devel Mark H Weaver skribis: > I've since migrated my x86_64 GuixSD system to building everything > locally, using a local branch that's almost the same as 'core-updates' > except with 'expat' and 'pcre' ungrafted. Since then, I've been unable > to reproduce the problem I described above. OK. > However, I've run into a different problem. Several times, after > reconnecting to the network, I've found that IceCat is unable to access > the network (or possibly just DNS), even when the everything works from > the command line. Restarting IceCat solves the problem. > > It's possible that waiting long enough would also work, but so far I > haven't been patient enough to try it. IceCat is too high-level to debug. I think we should look at getaddrinfo(3) or getent(1). > Possibly related: the glibc-2.26 release announcement mentions the > following new feature: > > * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer: > > - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been > modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver > option =E2=80=9Cno-reload=E2=80=9D (RES_NORELOAD) disables this beh= avior. I didn=E2=80=99t understand this part because nscd 2.25 already detected resolv.conf changes via inotify, AFAIK. Ludo=E2=80=99.