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From: Warren Togami <wtogami-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: initramfs <initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Race condition? /tmp/net.ifaces and pre-pivot
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:37:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A68D828.40506@redhat.com> (raw)

I am running into an odd issue that is supposedto be impossible.

pre-pivot/20write-ifcfg.sh is often being run but fails to write 
net.*.ifcfg files because /tmp/net.ifaces does not exist at that moment. 
  The mount was otherwise successful, and rdbreak before switch_root 
sees that /tmp/net.ifaces exists.

With plain "root=dhcp" with a NFS rootfs, it seems to never happen. 
However with "root=dhcp bridge", perhaps 25-75% of the time it is 
failing to write ifcfg files.

Some kind of race going on?  An inspection of the code seems to me that 
/tmp/net.ifaces should have already been created prior to pre-pivot?

Warren Togami
wtogami-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org
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             reply	other threads:[~2009-07-23 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-23 21:37 Warren Togami [this message]
     [not found] ` <4A68D828.40506-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-07-24  3:22   ` Race condition? /tmp/net.ifaces and pre-pivot Warren Togami
     [not found]     ` <4A6928EE.6090707-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-07-24  7:21       ` Harald Hoyer
2009-08-07  7:35   ` Seewer Philippe

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