[oe] [meta-networking][PATCH v3] dnsmasq: get systemd only working again

Anders Darander anders at chargestorm.se
Wed Apr 20 08:24:29 UTC 2016


* Joe MacDonald <joe_macdonald at mentor.com> [160419 17:36]:

> From: Mark Asselstine <mark.asselstine at windriver.com>

> The changes made in commit 2497cf2960537152427c99629b2af412787eb6c2
> [dnsmasq: steal resolvconf support from Ubuntu] broke systemd only
> dnsmasq runtime. No sysvinit scripts are included in systemd only
> builds (and should not be) and the dnsmasq executable has not moved to
> /usr/sbin.

> Reverting to the previous version of the systemd service file. If
> folks want the local dnsmasq instance to be queried before going to
> an external DNS they should add 'nameserver 127.0.0.1' to
> /etc/resolv.conf. Or submit a change which will work with systemd.

> Signed-off-by: Mark Asselstine <mark.asselstine at windriver.com>
> Signed-off-by: Joe MacDonald <joe_macdonald at mentor.com>
> ---

> The previous one should've been v2, so I've named this one v3 explicitly.
> After reading more of the systemd documentation I think this approach in
> the service file is the current best option available.  It would certainly
> be cleaner to store the pidfile name in an environment variable but it
> turns out on further inspection that if you pass a varaible to PIDFile,
> you get errors (that you only see when the service is stopped, not while
> it is running) indicating essentially that it is falling back to the
> "guess the MAINPID value" behaviour.  So this seems to be the way we're
> supposed to do this type of thing now.

> -J.

>  .../recipes-support/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.inc            |  9 ++--
>  .../dnsmasq/files/dnsmasq-resolvconf-helper        | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++

This file, dnsmasq-resolvconf-helper, isn't include in SRC_URI, neither
in do_install(). However it is referenced in the dnsmasq.service, which
leads to:

Apr 08 11:07:27 ccu dnsmasq[384]: started, version 2.75 cachesize 150
Apr 08 11:07:27 ccu dnsmasq[384]: compile time options: IPv6 GNU-getopt no-DBus no-i18n no-IDN DHCP DHCPv6 no-Lua TFTP no-conntrack ipset auth no-DNSSEC loop- detect inotify
Apr 08 11:07:27 ccu dnsmasq-dhcp[384]: DHCP, IP range 192.168.7.1 -- 192.168.7.1, lease time 2m
Apr 08 11:07:27 ccu dnsmasq[384]: [[0;1;39mno servers found in /etc/resolv.conf, will retry[[0m
Apr 08 11:07:27 ccu dnsmasq[384]: read /etc/hosts - 2 addresses Apr 08 11:07:27 ccu systemd[386]: [[0;1;31mdnsmasq.service: Failed at
step EXEC spawning /usr/bin/dnsmasq-resolvconf-helper: No such file or directory[[0m
Apr 08 11:07:27 ccu systemd[1]: [[0;1;39mdnsmasq.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=203[[0m
Apr 08 11:07:27 ccu systemd[1]: [[0;1;31mFailed to start DNS forwarder and DHCP server.[[0m
Apr 08 11:07:27 ccu systemd[1]: [[0;1;39mdnsmasq.service: Unit entered failed state.[[0m
Apr 08 11:07:27 ccu systemd[1]: [[0;1;39mdnsmasq.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.[[0m


Thus, with the following patch amended, I'm happy with this patch!

Cheers,
Anders

diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-support/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.inc b/meta-networking/recipes-support/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.inc
index df58e5c..db54658 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-support/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.inc
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-support/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.inc
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ SRC_URI = "http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/${@['archive/', ''][float(d.getV
            file://init \
            file://dnsmasq.conf \
            file://dnsmasq.service \
+           file://dnsmasq-resolvconf-helper \
 "

 inherit pkgconfig update-rc.d systemd
@@ -54,7 +55,7 @@ do_install () {
     install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/dnsmasq.service ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system

     install -m 0755 ${S}/contrib/wrt/dhcp_release ${D}${bindir}
-
+    install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/dnsmasq-resolvconf-helper ${D}${bindir}/dnsmasq-resolvconf-helper
     if [ "${@base_contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'dbus', 'dbus', '', d)}" != "" ]; then
         install -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/dbus-1/system.d
         install -m 644 dbus/dnsmasq.conf ${D}${sysconfdir}/dbus-1/system.d/



-- 
Anders Darander, Senior System Architect
ChargeStorm AB / eStorm AB



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