Re: [osstest test] 60719: tolerable FAIL - PUSHED

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Thu, 2015-09-03 at 11:49 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [osstest test] 60719: tolerable 
> FAIL - PUSHED"):
> ...
> > I suspect this is down to:
> > 
> >     root@lace-bug    :/etc/libvirt# cat /etc/hosts
> >     127.0.0.1    	    localhost
> >     127.0.1.1    	    lace-bug.xs.citrite.net    	   
> >  lace-bug
> 
> This is simply wrong.  It means that when programs on the host try to
> find the host's own IP address starting with its host name, they get
> different (and wrong) answers to programs on other hosts.
> 
> I can see why D-I wants to do this but in our setup it is simply
> entirely wrong.  Is there a way to suppress this (from preseed
> maybe) ?

I'll see if I can find the code which generates this file...

> > Overall I'm not sure what to do here. The Debian config seems a bit 
> > odd,
> > but I'm not sure if it is actually "wrong". OTOH I'm not sure how 
> > libvirt
> > could be changed to work in this scenario.
> 
> It might be possible to work around this in libvirt, but this is by no
> means libvirt's fault.

Right.