Setting static ip in Drupal 6.6 Appliance doesn't work

[Bikal Gurung]

After successfully installing the Drupal 6.6 appliance, choosing the static ip configuration option will not set all the required fields in '/etc/network/interfaces' configuration file. This results is outside some ubuntu repositories being unreachable. After adding the netmask, network broadcast and gateway settings the networking worked.

[Alon Swartz (alonswartz)]

This looks like a duplicate of: https://bugs.launchpad.net/turnkeylinux/+bug/303498
The above mentioned bug has been solved, and a fix released.

Could you please confirm that this fixes your problem:
    - apt-get update
    - apt-get install confconsole

The next release of Drupal6 (and all other appliances) will include this fix.

[Bikal Gurung (bikal-gurung)]

Hi,

Thank you for your response. However, even to just apply the patches a
working internet connection needs to be established. apt-get fails as the
ethernet device is not configured correctly. This might be more do with the
installation step.

thanks
Bikal

2008/12/9 Alon Swartz <email address hidden>

> This looks like a duplicate of:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/turnkeylinux/+bug/303498
> The above mentioned bug has been solved, and a fix released.
>
> Could you please confirm that this fixes your problem:
> - apt-get update
> - apt-get install confconsole
>
> The next release of Drupal6 (and all other appliances) will include this
> fix.
>
> --
> Setting static ip in Drupal 6.6 Appliance doesn't work
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306389
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in Turnkey Linux: New
>
> Bug description:
> After successfully installing the Drupal 6.6 appliance, choosing the static
> ip configuration option will not set all the required fields in
> '/etc/network/interfaces' configuration file. This results is outside some
> ubuntu repositories being unreachable. After adding the netmask, network
> broadcast and gateway settings the networking worked.
>

--
Bikal Gurung
Senior Consultant
LemaeTech Ltd
243 Crawley Green Road
Luton
LU2 0QJ

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[Alon Swartz (alonswartz)]

I agree - you can't apply the patch if you don't have network access ;)

Just to clear up:

    - The fix mentioned above was created because the default gateway *was* being configured, but was not being saved to /etc/network/interfaces - which would result in the gateway configuration being lost after a system restart.

    - Any changes made to the live system are not copied over to the hard disk upon installation (although we are planning on adding support for this in future versions).

Could you manually configure networking so you could update to the latest version, and confirm/refute if it fixes the issue.

[Bikal Gurung (bikal-gurung)]

Hi Alon,

Yes manual configuration of the network fixed the issue.

2008/12/11 Alon Swartz <email address hidden>

> I agree - you can't apply the patch if you don't have network access ;)
>
> Just to clear up:
>
> - The fix mentioned above was created because the default gateway
> *was* being configured, but was not being saved to
> /etc/network/interfaces - which would result in the gateway
> configuration being lost after a system restart.
>
> - Any changes made to the live system are not copied over to the
> hard disk upon installation (although we are planning on adding support
> for this in future versions).
>
> Could you manually configure networking so you could update to the
> latest version, and confirm/refute if it fixes the issue.
>
> --
> Setting static ip in Drupal 6.6 Appliance doesn't work
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306389
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in Turnkey Linux: New
>
> Bug description:
> After successfully installing the Drupal 6.6 appliance, choosing the static
> ip configuration option will not set all the required fields in
> '/etc/network/interfaces' configuration file. This results is outside some
> ubuntu repositories being unreachable. After adding the netmask, network
> broadcast and gateway settings the networking worked.
>

--
Bikal Gurung
Senior Consultant
LemaeTech Ltd
243 Crawley Green Road
Luton
LU2 0QJ

E: <email address hidden>

Registered in England and Wales: Company No: 6029775. VAT No: 894252007

[Alon Swartz (alonswartz)]

I just want to make sure before I close this bug report (your reply wasn't very clear).

    - you configured the network manually
    - updated to the latest version of confconsole
    - confirmed that the latest version fixes the issue.

correct?

[Bikal Gurung (bikal-gurung)]

Hi Alon,

yup. manual configuration solved the issue.

Bikal

2008/12/11 Alon Swartz <email address hidden>

> I just want to make sure before I close this bug report (your reply
> wasn't very clear).
>
> - you configured the network manually
> - updated to the latest version of confconsole
> - confirmed that the latest version fixes the issue.
>
> correct?
>
> --
> Setting static ip in Drupal 6.6 Appliance doesn't work
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306389
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in Turnkey Linux: New
>
> Bug description:
> After successfully installing the Drupal 6.6 appliance, choosing the static
> ip configuration option will not set all the required fields in
> '/etc/network/interfaces' configuration file. This results is outside some
> ubuntu repositories being unreachable. After adding the netmask, network
> broadcast and gateway settings the networking worked.
>

--
Bikal Gurung
Senior Consultant
LemaeTech Ltd
243 Crawley Green Road
Luton
LU2 0QJ

E: <email address hidden>

Registered in England and Wales: Company No: 6029775. VAT No: 894252007