[Netkit.users] Another strange behavior: bug?

[Giovambattista Ianni]

uh, that's it. Sorry, I've googled the wrong keywords, so I wasn't aware of.
I see that the other 3 open bugs are much more delicate, so I will wait and 
suggest everybody else to stay away from gnome-terminal at the moment.

gb


> Dear Giovambattista,
> 
> this bug report addresses your problem:
> http://bugs.netkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10
> 
> Regards,
> Massimo.
> 
> 
> Giovambattista Ianni wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I found some misbehavior when launching a VM with an alternative terminal, like
>> vstart fw --eth0=A --xterm=gnome
>>
>> What happens is that the started machine cannot activate the eth0 link on the hub A
>> (excerpt from dmesg below)
>> ----
>> Computing a digest to use as ethernet address for device eth0
>> Netdevice 0 (72:e8:99:2b:97:37) : daemon backend (uml_switch version 3) - 
>> unix:/home/ianni/.netkit/hubs/vhub_ianni_A.cnct
>> daemon_open : control connect failed, errno = 2
>> -----
>>
>> I did some tracing and found that the corresponding uml_switch process is 
>> started but dies as soon as the VM kernel is started, for no apparent reason.
>>
>> The problem could have something to deal with start timings but I'm not sure: for
>>
>> vstart fw -v --eth0=A --eth1=B --eth2=C --eth3=D --xterm=gnome
>>
>> I get that, randomly, eth3 and eth2 have their hub survive and get connected 
>> correctly.
>>
>> Is somebody else able to reproduce the same situation?
>> (I'm using gnome-terminal 2.28.1 on a Ubuntu 9.10 as host machine, fresh netkit 
>> 2.7 installation)
>>
>>
>> regards, gb
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