[Bug 1631474] Re: No networking with initramfs-tools 0.122ubuntu8.3 and ip=dhcp boot option

Dave Chiluk 1631474 at bugs.launchpad.net
Wed Oct 12 16:58:51 UTC 2016


I tested maas's command line as well.

/proc/cmdline from a maas pxe boot is
BOOT_IMAGE=ubuntu/amd64/hwe-y/yakkety/daily/boot-kernel nomodeset iscsi_target_name=iqn.2004-05.com.ubuntu:maas:ephemeral-ubuntu-amd64-hwe-y-yakkety-daily iscsi_target_ip=192.168.1.5 iscsi_target_port=3260 iscsi_initiator=bonusvm2 ip=::::bonusvm2:BOOTIF ro root=/dev/disk/by-path/ip-192.168.1.5:3260-iscsi-iqn.2004-05.com.ubuntu:maas:ephemeral-ubuntu-amd64-hwe-y-yakkety-daily-lun-1 overlayroot=tmpfs cloud-config-url=http://192.168.1.5/MAAS/metadata/latest/by-id/4y3h7t/?op=get_preseed log_host=192.168.1.5 log_port=514 initrd=ubuntu/amd64/hwe-y/yakkety/daily/boot-initrd BOOTIF=01-52-54-00-ca-c0-9e

Notable variables are
ip=::::bonusvm2:BOOTIF BOOTIF=01-52-54-00-ca-c0-9e

This use case continues to function.

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Title:
  No networking with initramfs-tools 0.122ubuntu8.3 and ip=dhcp boot
  option

Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in initramfs-tools source package in Xenial:
  Confirmed
Status in initramfs-tools source package in Yakkety:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * 0.122ubuntu8.3 of initramfs-tools no longer correctly processed
  ip=dhcp or ip=:::::eth0:dhcp

   * Regression-updates

   * The fix better parses the ip= command line argument.

  [Test Case]

   * Create a machine that boots using an nfsroot.

   * Use ip=:::::eth0:dhcp on the kernel command line.  To set up
     networking.

   * Discover that the device never comes up because, networking is not
  configured correctly.

  [Regression Potential]

   * Regressions potential is limited to machines using
  ip={""|::::*|on|any|dhcp} on the kernel command line.  As this is
  already broken regression potential is minimal.  This is common on
  machines that use nfsroot or otherwise pxe boot.

  [Other Info]

   * There are a number of other issues in this code base that are not solved by this fix.
   * The networking configuration does not strictly follow the kernel documentation as described https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt . This should be fixed.

  ====================Original Bug Description Follows==================

  initramfs-tools 0.122ubuntu8.3 introduced a serious regression where
  networking is not initialized when the boot option "ip=dhcp" is
  provided. We are seeing this problem in AWS, but cannot confirm if
  this issue is specific to AWS or will occur with different hardware or
  in different environments.

  Removing "ip=dhcp" from the boot options with 0.122ubuntu8.3 results
  in networking being configured.

  The issue does not occur with 0.122ubuntu8.2 or previous versions when
  "ip=dhcp" is set.

  AWS has no console so debugging is not a trivial task. I do have a
  console log with some output, and will update this bug shortly with
  it.

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