Re: NFS install failure

[Gary Thomas <gary mlbassoc com>]

David Cantrell wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:27:28 -0700
> Gary Thomas <gary mlbassoc com> wrote:
>
> > This *was* working with 11.4.0.16 (caveat, I hacked it to *not*
> > require the latest libdhcp code which today I've capitulated to)
> > Now, it fails when it tries to mount the NFS root.  It gets a
> > valid IP setup via DHCP to fetch the kickstart file, but fails
> > when mounting NFS because the interface seems to have been left
> > up and there is an error [re]adding the route(s).
> >
> >    ERROR: add: failed - 17: Netlink Error (errno = File exists)
> >    ERROR: nic_configure: failed to add route.
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this?  Any ideas what I might fix?
>
> What kernel are you using?  Do you have networking up and running before libdhcp tries to configure the interface?

It's a non-standard version (embedded platform - 2.6.20+).

The network is not up until DHCP is run to fetch the kickstart
file.  As mentioned, this was working before I upgraded to
the latest anaconda+libdhcp.


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