Re: Missing network configuration after installing Wheezy image

Hi,

I believe the issue is in the netcfg package.

I just had a look into /var/log/installer/syslog after the installation where I can find the following lines:

Jan 16 16:43:10 netcfg[5970]: INFO: Starting netcfg v.1.103 (built 20121210-1746)

Jan 16 16:43:10 netcfg[5970]: WARNING **: Couldn't read Wpasupplicant pid file, not trying to kill.

Jan 16 16:43:10 netcfg[5970]: INFO: Could not find valid BOOTIF= entry in /proc/cmdline

Jan 16 16:43:10 netcfg[5970]: INFO: Taking down interface eth0

Jan 16 16:43:22 netcfg[5970]: INFO: Taking down interface lo

Jan 16 16:43:22 netcfg[5970]: INFO: Activating interface eth0

Jan 16 16:43:23 kernel: [ 40.433149] pcnet32 0000:02:01.0: eth0: link up

Jan 16 16:43:23 netcfg[5970]: INFO: executing: ip addr add 192.168.6.61/24 broadcast 192.168.6.255 dev eth0

Jan 16 16:43:23 netcfg[5970]: INFO: Waiting time set to 3

Jan 16 16:43:24 netcfg[5970]: INFO: ethtool-lite: eth0 is connected.

Jan 16 16:43:24 netcfg[5970]: INFO: Found link on eth0

Jan 16 16:43:24 netcfg[5970]: ARPING to 192.168.6.30 from 192.168.6.61 via eth0

Jan 16 16:43:24 netcfg[5970]: Unicast reply from 192.168.6.30 [0:24:fe:eb:bc:53] 0.856ms

Jan 16 16:43:24 netcfg[5970]: Sent 1 probe(s) (1 broadcast(s))

Jan 16 16:43:24 netcfg[5970]: Received 1 replies (0 request(s), 0 broadcast(s))

Jan 16 16:43:24 netcfg[5970]: INFO: Gateway reachable on eth0

Jan 16 16:43:24 netcfg[5970]: DEBUG: Getting default hostname from rDNS lookup of static-configured address 192.168.6.61

Jan 16 16:43:24 netcfg[5970]: DEBUG: getnameinfo() returned -2: errno 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable)

Jan 16 16:43:27 netcfg[5970]: DEBUG: No interface given; clearing /etc/network/interfaces

Jan 16 16:43:27 netcfg[5970]: DEBUG: Writing informative header

Jan 16 16:43:27 netcfg[5970]: DEBUG: Success!

Jan 16 16:43:27 netcfg[5970]: DEBUG: Writing loopback interface

Jan 16 16:43:27 netcfg[5970]: DEBUG: Success!

Jan 16 16:43:27 netcfg[5970]: DEBUG: Writing static IPv4 stanza for eth0

For me the line "No interface given; clearing /etc/network/interfaces" looks like the file could not be written correctly due to a missing interface name.

That is why I added "d-i netcfg/choose_interface select eth0" to preseed.cfg but unfortunately there was not change with a new ISO image build with it.

Is my assumption correct, should I open a bug report for netcfg with these information?

Julian

Viele Grüße
Julian Pawlowski

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Julian Pawlowski <julian.pawlowski@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Daniel,

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net> wrote:

On 01/14/2013 09:10 AM, Julian Pawlowski wrote:

Is there a known issue with Debian Live or more the Debian Installer in
Wheezy?

can you reproduce it with a normal wheezy d-i (from the same build-date as the live one)? if so, it's a d-i bug, if not, it's a live-installer bug for which you should report a bug against live-installer.

Could you please give me some advice how to actually do this?
I just tried this:

1. Installing from a wheezy live image which has the named issue.

2. running "debconf-set-selections di-test.txt" where di-test.txt includes:

d-i netcfg/disable_dhcp boolean true
d-i netcfg/get_hostname string myhostname
d-i netcfg/get_hostname seen false
d-i netcfg/get_domain string local
d-i netcfg/get_domain seen false
d-i netcfg/wireless_wep string

3. "dpkg-reconfigure networking" which is not working. so how could I make Debian Installer to re-run the configuration here once again?

Br
Julian