[OE-core] volatile-binds and DNS

[Andrea Galbusera]

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 9:16 AM, Kristian Amlie <kristian.amlie at mender.io>
wrote:

> We've discovered that one of the recent commits to poky has broken DNS
> resolution in our image. The commit in questions is this one:
>
> -------------------
> commit fcd48092d7bcab0cad2606e65332da62420935ad
> Author: Joe Slater <jslater at windriver.com>
> Date:   Fri Mar 31 03:06:33 2017
>
>     volatile-binds: correct some errors reported by systemd
>
>     systemd-tmpfiles-setup will fail at boot, so we suppress
>     the default versions of etc.conf and home.conf.
>
>     We also make sure that /var/{cache,spool} and /srv are writeable
>     if they exist.
> ...
> -------------------
>
> The problem is that this suppresses the creation of a /etc/resolv.conf
> file, and without that DNS does not work.
>
> The file is a symlink to the resolv.conf that systemd provides in
> /run/systemd/resolve/resolv.conf, so it could potentially be
> prepopulated, but I admit I don't fully understand how this fits together.
>
> Any advice?
>

There's a bug open on this [1]. My workaround as for now is to apply [2],
but I'm not completely aware of the issue that suggested the original
commit you mention, hence there might be a better approach to fix this...

[1] https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11331
[2]
http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2017-April/136074.html



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