Re: ifconfig output format change breaks scripts ( knoppix-terminalserver )

[Klaus Knopper <debian-knoppix@knopper.net>]

Hi Gilles,

On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:04:50PM -0800, Gilles van Ruymbeke wrote:
>    Hi Klaus,
>    I just woul like to bring to your attention that the output format of the
>    "ifconfig" program have now changed
>    which now breaks multiple scripts, knoppix-terminalserver being one of
>    them. Knoppix 7.5.0 was still ok.

Thanks, many reports about this unexpected change in an over 10 year old
program. Needs to be repaired/wrapped. Still, I'm quite delighted to
know that the terminalserver feature is actually used by someone. ;-)

>    cf: https : / / bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=784314
>    I also have trouble getting the vmware tools to autostart and have the cut
>    & paste working between
>    the host and the guest vm. It is probablly not related to the above
>    problem. Any idea ?

Not really, I rather use kvm (which does not support cut&paste between
guest and host anyways).

Also, a kernel bug related to e1000 network cards needs to be fixed:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/10/9/61s7
and the memtest binary is broken. So, I'll
probably run a bugfix release in the next few weeks (hopefully find some
time for the CD version, too, which is still in my pending working queue).

Regards
-Klaus