Comment 14 for bug 1308378
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| Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote Re: [Bug 1308378] Re: No working network after 12.04 LTS -> 14.04 LTS upgrade if no /etc/resolv.conf in precise | #14 |
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 07:49:17AM -0000, Timo Jyrinki wrote:
> I think I know the actual reason (or one of those) it may be missing for
> many people including me in 12.04 LTS:
> https:/
> this in a modified form (just installing additional packages and
> resolv.conf as the only modified/removed file) was started to be used
> for Finnish Remix CD:s around 2007 and probably many other remixes have
> used the same wiki page as guidance. I'm not sure about the various more
> automated remix tools around. The instructions use copying host's
> resolv.conf to etc so that network works inside chroot, and then it
> "cleans up" by removing the copied /etc/resolv.conf. This was maybe ok
> when /etc/resolv.conf was not a symlink and Network Manager modified it
> directly, like in 10.04 LTS.
Ok. Would be great if someone could fix up such broken documentation; but
if you say this was because of a non-standard install method I'm satisfied
that there's no reason to expect a recurrence of the problem on upgrade.