[oi-dev] Error after pkg install

[stes@PANDORA.BE]

In my case on the OpenIndiana system I run physical:nwam the physical network interface autoconfiguration.

# svcs -a | grep physical
disabled        7:44:29 svc:/network/physical:default
online          7:44:33 svc:/network/physical:nwam

See man nwamd   (choice between "manual" and "auto-magic" mode).

Did you have some events logged in the current "volatile"

  /etc/svc/volatile/network-physical:nwam.log

or in the (permanent) copy in

  /var/svc/log/network-physical:nwam.log 

Anyway the error seems not so unusual, for example I had it many times when adding host IP addresses manually to /etc/hosts and then you could get hostname resolution errors in some cases.

It could be something transient in the hostname resolution / network automagic setup.

Of course it can be something else as well, checking the nwam.log file is perhaps a good start to troubleshoot this.

David Stes

----- Op 13 jul 2021 om 23:41 schreef gary mills gary_mills at fastmail.fm:

> On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 08:20:43PM +0200, stes at PANDORA.BE wrote:
>> 
>> I installed some software (pkg install squeak) today and had no problems;
> 
>>  E_COULDNT_RESOLVE_HOST (6) reason: Could not resolve host:
>> pkg.openindiana.org
> 
>>  I've seen this error quite a few times when there is DNS resolving
>> problem, for example when /etc/nsswitch.conf has an issue.
> 
> It certainly was transient.  Both "host" and "getent" could resolve
> the hostname to an IP address immediately afterward.  I also did not
> get the error message a few minutes ago when I did an install.
> 
> 
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> -Gary Mills-		-refurb-		-Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-
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