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GuixSD ver 0.8.2, DHCLIENT not setting up the network.

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From: Scott McDonough <smcdonough1 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: GuixSD ver 0.8.2, DHCLIENT not setting up the network.
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 20:15:50 -0700

I downloaded Guix and tried to install it but DHCLIENT times out and 
does not set up the NIC card.  This command worked fine on my hardware 
with ver 0.8.1. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?

Message #8 received at 20582 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: 宋文武 <iyzsong <at> gmail.com>
To: Scott McDonough <smcdonough1 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 20582 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20582: GuixSD ver 0.8.2, DHCLIENT not setting up the network.
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 23:59:11 +0800

2015-05-15 11:15 GMT+08:00 Scott McDonough <smcdonough1 <at> gmail.com>:
> I downloaded Guix and tried to install it but DHCLIENT times out and does
> not set up the NIC card.  This command worked fine on my hardware with ver
> 0.8.1. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
Maybe you need set up the NIC first?
(at least, I need)

Message #11 received at 20582 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: 宋文武 <iyzsong <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 20582 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Scott McDonough <smcdonough1 <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#20582: GuixSD ver 0.8.2, DHCLIENT not setting up the network.
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 18:54:41 +0200

宋文武 <iyzsong <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> 2015-05-15 11:15 GMT+08:00 Scott McDonough <smcdonough1 <at> gmail.com>:
>> I downloaded Guix and tried to install it but DHCLIENT times out and does
>> not set up the NIC card.  This command worked fine on my hardware with ver
>> 0.8.1. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
> Maybe you need set up the NIC first?

Right, you need to run:

  ifconfig eth0orwhatever up

before running:

  dhclient -v eth0orwhatever

HTH,
Ludo’.

Message #14 received at 20582 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Scott McDonough <smcdonough1 <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, 宋文武 <iyzsong <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 20582 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20582: GuixSD ver 0.8.2, DHCLIENT not setting up the network.
Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 06:59:14 -0700

Success!
Thank you very much for your quick response.

Who is the person who maintains the Reference Manual.
I could forward this email to them.
These extra clarifications were very useful.

Scott

On 05/15/2015 09:54 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> 宋文武 <iyzsong <at> gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> 2015-05-15 11:15 GMT+08:00 Scott McDonough <smcdonough1 <at> gmail.com>:
>>> I downloaded Guix and tried to install it but DHCLIENT times out and does
>>> not set up the NIC card.  This command worked fine on my hardware with ver
>>> 0.8.1. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
>> Maybe you need set up the NIC first?
> Right, you need to run:
>
>    ifconfig eth0orwhatever up
>
> before running:
>
>    dhclient -v eth0orwhatever
>
> HTH,
> Ludo’.

Message #19 received at 20582-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Scott McDonough <smcdonough1 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 宋文武 <iyzsong <at> gmail.com>, 20582-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20582: GuixSD ver 0.8.2, DHCLIENT not setting up the network.
Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 20:52:17 +0200

Scott McDonough <smcdonough1 <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> Success!
> Thank you very much for your quick response.

Great.

> Who is the person who maintains the Reference Manual.

It is “us,” you included.  ;-)

> I could forward this email to them.
> These extra clarifications were very useful.

Sure.  A patch against the doc/guix.texi file would be welcome.

Thanks!

Ludo’.

Message #22 received at 20582 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: 20582 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: smcdonough1 <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#20582: GuixSD ver 0.8.2, DHCLIENT not setting up the network.
Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 23:28:24 +0200

I went ahead and committed a documentation patch in 152dd61.

However, looking more closely (in QEMU), I noticed that
‘dhcp-client-service’ also needs to set the interfaces up before calling
‘dhclient’, hence commit 9bb34f9.

Now, I wonder what has changed.  I recall that this was not needed in
the past, so perhaps a change in Linux-libre 4.0.2 made interfaces down
by default or something like that.  Any ideas?

Ludo’.

Message #25 received at 20582 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Scott McDonough <smcdonough1 <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, 20582 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20582: GuixSD ver 0.8.2, DHCLIENT not setting up the network.
Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 18:48:27 -0700

Thanks for the documentation update.

You are exactly right.
Running "ifconfig eth0orwhatever up" was not needed in 0.8.1

I will do some looking around and see if this service is mentioned by 
other users of Linux-libre.

On 05/17/2015 02:28 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> I went ahead and committed a documentation patch in 152dd61.
>
> However, looking more closely (in QEMU), I noticed that
> ‘dhcp-client-service’ also needs to set the interfaces up before calling
> ‘dhclient’, hence commit 9bb34f9.
>
> Now, I wonder what has changed.  I recall that this was not needed in
> the past, so perhaps a change in Linux-libre 4.0.2 made interfaces down
> by default or something like that.  Any ideas?
>
> Ludo’.

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