[Voyage-linux] Network problems voyage 0.6.2: no DNS, ifup and ifdown errors

[Robert Vollmert]

On Jul 28, 2009, at 01:27, rodney at optimail.com.au wrote:
> 1. The interface ppp0 does come up, but DNS is not working.
> /etc/resolv.conf is empty, and it is apparently due to the fact that  
> it is
> not writeable.
> If I 'remountrw', then bring the link up, it works fine.
> With 'remountro', it doesn't work.
> In voyage 0.5.2, it works all the time, even when /etc is read-only.
>
> I'm guessing that networking does 'remountrw' during a critical time  
> in
> 0.5.2, but can't find exactly where it happens.
>
> How is this supposed to work, and what has changed?

I'm not sure how it's supposed to work, but here I've installed the  
package resolvconf, and /etc/resolv.conf points to /etc/resolvconf/run/ 
resolv.conf, where /etc/resolvconf/run is a symlink to a directory in / 
lib/init/rw (that's always writable).

Cheers
Robert