Bug#584583: initramfs-tools: configure_networking function: repeatedly makes DHCP requests

[Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@freegeek.org>]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 03:45:09PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
> * Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant+debianbugs@freegeek.org> [Fre Jun 04, 2010 at 01:18:04 -0700]:
 
> > an alternate possibility is that i've been testing with qemu and qemu-kvm,
> > which may have strange timing issues. i will attempt to test with real hardware
> > and follow up with that...
> 
> Can you please provide output of:
> 
>   dpkg --list klibc-utils module-init-tools udev busybox\*

  ltsp-chroot dpkg --list klibc-utils module-init-tools udev 'busybox*'
  Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
  | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
  |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
  ||/ Name           Version        Description
  +++-==============-==============-============================================
  ii  busybox        1:1.14.2-2     Tiny utilities for small and embedded system
  un  busybox-initra <none>         (no description available)
  un  busybox-static <none>         (no description available)
  ii  klibc-utils    1.5.18-1       small utilities built with klibc for early b
  ii  module-init-to 3.12~pre2-3    tools for managing Linux kernel modules
  ii  udev           154-1          /dev/ and hotplug management daemon
   
> Which qemu/kvm cmdline are you using? Is the e1000 module involved?

  qemu -enable-kvm -name ltsp-client -net nic,vlan=1,model=pcnet -net tap,vlan=1,ifname=ltsp1,script=no -boot n -soundhw es1370 -usb

same behavior with model=virtio, model=ne2k_pci. e1000 doesn't even boot far enough to test...

live well,
  vagrant