[17350] in Athena Bugs
"re-trying host configuration..." bug on Solaris
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Wed Nov 3 19:17:45 1999
Message-Id: <199911040017.TAA04833@snorklewacker.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 19:17:36 -0500
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
It appears this hasn't been reported yet, so I'll submit a bug
report. On several occasions now, most recently this afternoon, I've
discovered Suns in a state where, upon boot, they attempt to configure
their network interface and begin reporting:
re-trying host configuration...
endlessly. This afternoon, I managed to get a look at one of these
machines by "boot -b"'ing it. What I discovered was that the files:
/etc/nodename
/etc/inet/netmasks
/etc/hostname.le0
/etc/defaultrouter
all existed but were zero length, and that
/etc/inet/hosts
contained only the entry for localhost. The .saved versions of all
these files contained the correct information.
I have a suspicion that syncconf is at fault here, specifically
the the if-else clause that's checking if $ADDR is set to "dhcp". For
the record, on the machine I fixed, n42-075-1, rc.conf contained the
correct static IP and hostname for the machine and hadn't been modified
recently.
Garry
