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Bug#668013: lamboot doesn't recognise 127.0.1.1 as a local address

April 08th, 2012 - 05:00 am ET by Sergio Gelato | Report spam
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Package: lam-runtime
Version: 7.1.2-2

By default, the Debian installer sets up an entry in /etc/hosts mapping the
local host's name to the IP address 127.0.1.1. See Debian bug #316099.

This causes lamboot to fail with the following message when the hostfile
contains the name of the local host:

The boot SSI rsh module found that your local host is not in the
hostfile "hostfile".

The local host name *must* be in the list of hosts in the hostfile.
In other words, you must boot LAM from a node that will be part of the
universe.

Commenting out the 127.0.1.1 line in /etc/hosts makes the problem disappear,
as does replacing 127.0.1.1 with the external IP address of the local host.



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#1 Camm Maguire
April 09th, 2012 - 10:20 am ET | Report spam
Greetings, and thanks for your report! Is there a valid way lam could
work around this /etc/hosts breakage? The report in 316099 appears to
indicate that the problem has been resolved by never associating
127.0.0.1 with the canonical name of the local host. Does this solve
the issue?

Take care,

Sergio Gelato writes:

Package: lam-runtime
Version: 7.1.2-2

By default, the Debian installer sets up an entry in /etc/hosts mapping the
local host's name to the IP address 127.0.1.1. See Debian bug #316099.

This causes lamboot to fail with the following message when the hostfile
contains the name of the local host:

The boot SSI rsh module found that your local host is not in the
hostfile "hostfile".

The local host name *must* be in the list of hosts in the hostfile.
In other words, you must boot LAM from a node that will be part of the
universe.

Commenting out the 127.0.1.1 line in /etc/hosts makes the problem disappear,
as does replacing 127.0.1.1 with the external IP address of the local host.









Camm Maguire
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