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finalizer

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From: Israel

Registered: 2013-09-11

Posts: 21

[SOLVED] Resolver stoped working after today's upgrade

Hi,

After today's upgrade (pacman -Syu) resolver doesn't work. I'm able to ping hosts by IP address but not by a hostname. I see no errors during the boot and in dmesg. The /etc/resolv.conf also didn't changed. But resolver doesn't work for some strange reason. Today's upgrade included (in my case) new kernel and new glibc. Is it a known issue? What to do, what to check? I have no network and I'm writing this message from Windows now.

Last edited by finalizer (2013-09-19 20:01:15)

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Re: [SOLVED] Resolver stoped working after today's upgrade

Just a sanity check -- you did reboot into that new kernel, right?

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finalizer

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From: Israel

Registered: 2013-09-11

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Re: [SOLVED] Resolver stoped working after today's upgrade

Just a sanity check -- you did reboot into that new kernel, right?

Yes. I think this problem relates to the following upstream bug report:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61291

because I have Marvell Yukon based network card.

Last edited by finalizer (2013-09-17 22:57:42)

finalizer

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From: Israel

Registered: 2013-09-11

Posts: 21

Re: [SOLVED] Resolver stoped working after today's upgrade

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/36865

Patch from 5-th message fixes this issue.

nathanb

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Registered: 2011-11-28

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Re: [SOLVED] Resolver stoped working after today's upgrade

@finalizer:

Thank you for being epic and finding the problem!

I hit this same issue. Since I'm super lazy, I just chucked a Netgear GigE card in the box and called it good. I'll wait for the powers-that-be to fix the problem and then throw the card back in my pile o' spare parts.

The last (as of this writing) comment in the thread on that bug report is very relevant, though: what's the expected user experience for this? If finalizer hadn't accurately triaged the problem and reported a solution, it may have taken me hours to figure out that the onboard NIC from my aging motherboard, which worked perfectly up until the upgrade today, was the culprit. If I hadn't happened to see the thread as I was browsing this board, I would have been up a creek.

finalizer

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From: Israel

Registered: 2013-09-11

Posts: 21

Re: [SOLVED] Resolver stoped working after today's upgrade

User experience seems not to be so important here, but packaging from the upstreams.