Dan,
That's an interesting idea on the resolv.conf, but /var/db is on a
writable file-system. I'll try creating a symlink to a copy of resolv.conf
in /usr/local/etc and see if that clears things up.
Thanks,
Seth Henry
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Dan Pelleg wrote:
> "J. Seth Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Ok, I think I just qualified for an idiot award. After a little more
> > poking around, I discovered that it was the read-only filesystem that was
> > causing the problem. I rebuilt the microdrive image, and included a
> > special /dev this time - which I mount over the original /dev. Now, I
> > don't seem to be having any problems with sshd.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I appear to have made my dhclient problem worse. Now, it
> > hangs, producing volumes of log data like this:
> >
> > Apr 3 17:52:45 dhclient: New IP Address (aue0): 192.168.1.5
> > Apr 3 17:52:45 dhclient: New Subnet Mask (aue0): 255.255.255.0
> > Apr 3 17:52:45 dhclient: New Broadcast Address (aue0): 192.168.1.255
> > Apr 3 17:52:45 dhclient: New Routers: 192.168.1.254
> > Apr 3 17:52:45 dhclient: New Network Number: 192.168.1.0
> > Apr 3 17:52:45 dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 192.168.1.255
> > Apr 3 17:52:45 dhclient: New IP Address (aue0): 192.168.1.5
> > Apr 3 17:52:45 dhclient: New Subnet Mask (aue0): 255.255.255.0
> > Apr 3 17:52:45 dhclient: New Broadcast Address (aue0): 192.168.1.255
> > Apr 3 17:52:45 dhclient: New Routers: 192.168.1.254
> >
> > I have to hit CTRL-C to get a login...
> >
> > I tried running dhclient under truss, but it gives me a segmentation fault
> > before getting very far. It doesn't seem to be attempting to write to
> > files on a read-only filesystem though. I can post the output of truss if
> > anyone is interested.
> >
>
> I don't remember the history of this thread, but my first thought
> would be that it's probably trying to update /etc/resolv.conf and/or
> /var/db/dhclient.leases
>
> I don't think a failure to update resolv.conf would result in
> this behaviour. But for dhclient.leases, it might.
>
> Advance warning: if you're using ntp, you will have a similar
> issue for ntp.drift.
>
> --
>
> Dan Pelleg
>
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