[one-users] Attach a console to kvm instance to debug network/boot issue

[Gavin]

Hi Javier,

Your solution seems to have solved the issue of the
/etc/network/interfaces population.

Thank you very much for this!!

However I have tried symlinkin the wrapper/proxy script from
/etc/init.d/vmcontextproxy.sh to /etc/rc2.d and I also tried linking
it to rcS.d so that it fires after disk mount but before networking
and the nic's still don't come up.

What I have had to do that works is add '/etc/init.d/networking
restart' to /etc/rc/local.

This is probably not the most elegant workaround but it works.

Any hints as to why vmcontext populates the network config correctly
but the vm fails to bring up the interfaces ??

Thanks again for all your help!

Regards,
Gavin

2009/8/27 Javier Fontan <jfontan at fdi.ucm.es>:
> Hello,
>
> This problem seems to be produced for executing the script with the
> wrong interpreter. Some init systems execute those scripts with sh
> even if you change the shebang to specify the interpreter for the
> script. It needs to be bash. To correct this do not link vmcontext
> script from init but use a proxy script to call it. Something like:
>
> --8<------
> #!/bin/sh
>
> bash <place where vmcontext.sh is located> $@
> ------>8--
>
> That should solve the errors you are getting.
>
> Bye