Bug#714288: netcfg: Fail to pass DHCP ntp-server option to clock-setup using netcfg/dhcp_ntp_servers
Package: netcfg
Version: 1.108
Severity: important
User: debian-edu@lists.debian.org
Usertags: debian-edu
I discovered this while installing Debian Edu Wheezy using PXE and a
HTTP proxy from behind a blocking firewall. As can be seen in
<URL: http://bugs.debian.org/714274 >, the fix for
<URL: http://bugs.debian.org/447071 > introduced in netcfg version
1.40 no longer work. There is no longer any code in netcfg to set the
netcfg/dhcp_ntp_servers debconf value, and thus clock-setup do not
know the ntp-server setting passed on from the DHCP server.
I suspect this code disappeared when the dhcp client code was changed,
but am not sure. Please reintroduce it to make sure the correct NTP
server is used during installation. Without this code, clock-setup
time out without being able to set the correct time, which causes
problems with file system creating and kerberos authentication.
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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen
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