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On 17/05/11 14:48, Gordon Henderson wrote:
On Tue, 17 May 2011, Keith Abraham wrote:On 16/05/11 16:41, Philip Hudson wrote:Just did a debian apt-get dist-upgrade, new kernel, so rebooted, stone me, blank resolv.conf WTF!I don't know if you are using a very recent kernel on a Debian system but if you are then any resolv.conf in /etc/ should no longer exist or at least point to /etc/run/resolv.conf/resolv.conf. I think this is all to do with the new /run directory where many things will live in the future including resolv.conf.-- Phil Hudson http://hudson-it.no-ip.biz @UWascalWabbit PGP/GnuPG ID: 0x887DCA63eh? What has the kernel got to do with it?I'm runnig various debians including squeeze, some with 2.6.36.x and all have /etc/resolv.conf. it's been that way for 20 years, why change it now?Is this a new thing... just debian, or all distros? seems to me they're fixing something that isn't broken... Gordon
I was only using recent kernels eg 2.6.38 and above to indicate the upgrade state of your system. If you are using the latest kernel then, as I see it, you are more likely keeping your system up to date and be using the latest package versions.
RE: the transition to a /run directory the maintainer's article http://lwn.net/Articles/436012/ and other places.During the transition there will be problems Some versions of udev for example will introduce the /run directory too early in the transitional period and can cause the system to be un-bootable.
eg. http://aptosid.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=1093&highlight=runIt's happening to linux in general. If your distro uses timed upgrades the /run concept will probably be contained in the next upgrade. But if you do upgrades yourself then beware as odd things may happen until the transition is over.
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