Ubuntu
friendly-recovery package

netroot doesn't work in most cases

Bug #572426 reported by Simone F. on 2010-04-30

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	friendly-recovery (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: friendly-recovery

the 7th entry in recovery-menu (root) seems to me like the 6th (netroot) because when I enter the netroot one I expect to have full netwrok support, while I enter root session I would expect that no network device is enabled, instead even for root session it is enabled.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: friendly-recovery 0.2.10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33~pre1-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Apr 30 17:19:30 2010
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Beta i386 (20090929.2)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
SourcePackage: friendly-recovery

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Simone F. (fittabile) wrote on 2010-04-30:

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jhansonxi (jhansonxi) wrote on 2011-01-12:

This isn't the case in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx).

/usr/share/recovery-mode/options/netroot <= starts dhclient then sulogin
/usr/share/recovery-mode/options/root <= sulogin only

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Stéphane Graber (stgraber) wrote on 2011-09-22:

Indeed the only different between root and netroot is that netroot starts dhclient on eth0 which in quite a few cases should bring the network up.

I don't particularly like this implementation and it'd make more sense to either run "ifup -a" or start NetworkManager depending on what's installed on the system.

Changing priority so that it stays on the radar for the next release.

Changed in friendly-recovery (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Medium
summary:	- root recovery session same as netroot + netroot doesn't work in most cases

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jhansonxi (jhansonxi) wrote on 2011-09-22:

I would suggest having wicd-curses available since it can also handle wireless connections. I created an recovery mode add-on to start it: http://jhansonxi.blogspot.com/2011/01/expanding-ubuntu-recovery-mode.html