Bug#765577: netboot install writes duplicates to 70-persistent-net.rules

[Michael Biebl]

Am 18.03.2015 um 18:52 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Am 18.03.2015 um 18:15 schrieb Faidon Liambotis:
>> Another less arbitrary/racy workaround I suggesed was a grep near the
>> top of write_net_rules' write_rule() function.  Since write_rule()
>> operates under a lock, this would completely eliminate any kind of race
>> here. I pitched this to Marco but he wasn't thrilled with the idea -- he
>> said he'd prefer finding the root cause. I've done the change and tested
>> it anyway, though, and it successfully aleviates this issue:
> 
> I'm with Marco here. Before adding any workarounds, we need to
> understand what the underlying problem is. Otherwise we are adding cruft
> which nobody understands anymore a few years from now.
> 
> Since I can't reproduce the issue and already have trouble keeping up
> with other bug reports, further investigation needs to be done by
> someone else.

Btw, thanks for looking into this.
Would be awesome if you can dig further and get to the bottom of this.


Michael


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