[Buildroot] ping not working in a glibc based buildroot

[Eial Czerwacki <eial@scalemp.com>]

Greetings Yann,

On 07/10/2014 07:30 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Eial, All,
>
> I know you solved your issue by copying the missing NSS libs,
> yet I have a comment about this mail, see below.
>
> On 2014-07-10 15:15 +0300, Eial Czerwacki spake thusly:
>> On 07/09/2014 05:53 PM, Eial Czerwacki wrote:
>>> Greetings Gustavo,
>>>
>>> On 07/09/2014 05:46 PM, Gustavo Zacarias wrote:
>>>> On 07/09/2014 11:40 AM, Eial Czerwacki wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> yes, here it is:
>>>>> --- /etc/resolv.conf    2014-07-09 17:35:30.420040438 +0300
>>>>> +++ yyy/etc/resolv.conf 1970-01-01 02:00:00.000000000 +0200
>>>>> @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
>>>>> -; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
>>>>> -search cluserdns cluserdnsus
>>>>> -nameserver 10.100.1.40
>>>>>
>>>>> thing is, I'm not sure who generates the content of that file, is it
>>>>> part of busybox? other utility?
>>>> That depends on your network configuration, for static IP scenarios
>>>> normally you do, for DHCP it's normally done by the dhcp post up script.
>>>> Regards.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> did you mean /usr/share/udhcpc/default.script?
>> I've looked into the resolv.conf of the actual boot (not chroot) and I
>> saw the domain bad issue (bug #3979), applying it gave me valid domain
>> again in resolv.conf but problem still persists.
>>
>> it is like udhcpc cannot find the dns servers. am I right? where do we
>> set dns?
> When you are in a chroot, you are still using the IP stack from your
> non-chroot system, so the network interfaces are already configured.
> So, no need to run a DHCP client.
>
> However, you still need to properly setup the resolver in your chroot,
> which you did by filling in /etc/resolv.conf and copying the NSS libs.
>
> For example, I usually just copy the non-chroot /etc/resolv.conf into my
> chroot.
>
> Regards,
> Yann E. MORIN.
>
that is correct when to comes to chrooting into the image but I'm not
sure that the same resolv.conf will be suited to boot from that same img.

Eial.