Invalid domain in /etc/resolv.conf on network install with NetworkManager disabled
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| casper (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Canonical Foundations Team | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: casper
Ubuntu release: Natty (LiveCD daily image from 2011-01-27).
Package: this is present in Casper 1.254.
What I expected to happen: a domain entry in /etc/resolv.conf without quotes.
What happened instead: /etc/resolv.conf has quotes in the domain entry, causing problems while installing some other packages.
More details about this problem:
In a testing environment, we do network installs using the daily Natty images. One particularity is that we disable NetworkManager by creating an interface entry in /etc/interfaces prior to booting. Thus, scripts/
23networking parses the /tmp/net-
This bug is not usually apparent because most installations use NetworkManager, which takes over resolv.conf, rebuilding it from DHCP information, which it doesn't quote, unlike ipconfig.
Related branches
- Colin Watson: Approve
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Diff: 49 lines (+16/-2) (has conflicts)2 files modifieddebian/changelog (+11/-0)
scripts/casper-bottom/23networking (+5/-2)
| Daniel Manrique (roadmr) wrote | #1 |
| description: | updated |
| Ara Pulido (ara) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in casper (Ubuntu): | |
| assignee: | nobody → Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | High → Medium |
| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote | #3 |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in casper (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Triaged → Fix Released |
I've looked into this a bit more and found out that the quotes make the resolver misbehave, so they should be stripped, even for the search entry in /etc/resolv.conf.
The proposed fix sanitizes both the search entry, by removing the quotes, and the domain entry, by removing quotes and stripping all but the first domain - at least that's my interpretation of how it should be, from reading resolv.conf(5). I tested it with quoted and unquoted DNSDOMAIN values, and also with multiple domain entries and a single entry (which is the case for most networks).