dhclient-script NFS errors with busybox ifconfig
Tim Peiffer
peiffer at umn.edu
Tue Apr 11 19:40:09 UTC 2006
I can't address the busybox ifconfig, but I would check you path.. edit
line 94 from
ifconfig to /sbin/ifconfig or whatever. /*/sbin is usually never in the
path.
Regards,
Tim
John Faith wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am trying to use dhcp-3.0.3b1 on an embedded Linux board (kernel
> 2.4.20) with a NFS root filesystem. The 'ifconfig' on this system is
> from busybox 1.01.
>
> When I run 'dhclient' as root, I get NFS errors and my filesystem goes
> away. I've tracked it down to line 94 in dhclient-script (which is the
> same in dhcp-3.0.4b3.tar.gz):
>
> ifconfig $interface 0 up
>
> I can run 'ifconfig eth0 0 up' by hand, and it completes without
> printing an error, but subsequent commands fail due to the NFS
> filesystem going away.
>
> Has anyone else run into this with busybox ifconfig, or know if this is
> a dhclient-script bug or a busybox bug?
>
>
> Thanks!
> John
>
>
>
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