Guten Morgen ;)
On Friday, August 13, 2010 05:27:37 am Juergen Kahnert wrote: > Hi Stephan, > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 06:51:46PM +0200, Stephan Hermann wrote: > > I have a working lucid setup running without any tweaks of ipconfig... > > lucky you. :) > > > I wonder if there is something else happening during before or during > > kernel dhcp request via ipconfig... > > > > you could try to use debug=1 as kernel append variable to get more > > info from the initramfs thingy... > > It throws a kernel panic and scrolls everyting else out of screen. No > chance to scroll back. It's really annoying to debug initrd bugs. :( > > But ipconfig isn't the only problem inside this initrd. This whole > thing needs to be fixed. It may help to replace ipconfig. As everybody > is able to read the scripts/live comment: > > # this is tricky (and ugly) because ipconfig sometimes just hangs/runs > into # an endless loop; iff execution fails give it two further tries, > that's # why we use '$devlist $devlist $devlist' for the other for loop > > This is crap and should be fixed. > Ok, I'm all for it ;) The colleagues from the LTS project (especially those guys using it on EDUBUNTU) were replacing ipconfig with a small dhcpclient (udhcpcd or whatever) I wonder if it's possible to find a common solution to replace ipconfig from klibc with a sane dhcp client implementation which works. If we could find some people interested in this work, I would love to help :) Regards, \sh