Bug#109455: dhcp non-functional 3.0.11
On 24 Aug 2001 11:01:01 -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > That is true. In fact, I suspect that a lot of folks using the
> > DHCP/network install option just might be cable and DSL installers...
> > perhaps a note like this would be useful:
>
> No, that's too hard to do, and it's more likely that our silly test
> will fail than anything else.
>
> I really think this is a dhcp-client bug ? Or did any people really
> identify that it's something about the root disk which causes this?
I'm not familiar enough with either codebase to say whether dhclient
returns an error or not or that b-f incorrectly detects success when
dhclient actually reported failure.
I'm a Perl guy.
As far as difficulty of implementing the message, I just figured you'd
wrap the error with the help text instead of just returning "Operation
failed" which is definitely unhelpful. :-) I wouldn't worry about
testing for the condition.
Flow:
fork(dhclient)
dhclient returns failure (doesn't matter what the failure is)
printf("Suggestion helptext yadda. ERROR %s",ERRTEXT)
printf("Would you like to manually configure?")
$0.02,
-s
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