netkit-ng / netkit-ng-core

Scripts and tools that make up the Netkit-NG core

WARNING: The netkit-NG project is deprecated in favoir of Netkit-JH

Netkit-NG version 3.0.4

Documentation are located here: http://netkit-ng.github.io/

netkit-ng-core's Issues

check-configuration script returns warning about parse file not supported on ext4

Issue reported by @bingel74

The only problem I have had, it has occured when I was running post-installation check script. Script
returned a warning saying my fs was not supporting sparse files. Obviously this was wrong since my fs
is ext4. Also one of my friend tested netkit-ng on his pc with ubuntu 14.04 installed and he obtained
same warning.

/etc/resolv.conf is a link to a file that does not exist

Reported by Severio Proto on ML:

"Looks like /etc/resolv.conf is a link to a file that dows not exist."

Mount netkit-fs-i386-F7.0

Hi,

I'm trying to mount the filesystem netkit-fs-i386-F7.0 but it seems it does not contain a valid partition table:

root~:# /sbin/fdisk -lu netkit-fs-i386-F7.0
...
Disk netkit-fs-i386-F7.0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Thank you for your help.

eva

System appears not to be able to run the linux kernel

Even though I have configured the environment variables, I get this error. Where is it coming from? I don't really understand what it means.

./check_configuration.sh
>  Checking path correctness... passed.
>  Checking environment... passed.
>  Checking for availability of man pages... passed.
>  Checking for proper directories in the PATH... passed.
>  Checking for availability of auxiliary tools:
	awk          : ok
	basename     : ok
	date         : ok
	dirname      : ok
	find         : ok
	getopt       : ok
	grep         : ok
	head         : ok
	id           : ok
	kill         : ok
	ls           : ok
	lsof         : ok
	ps           : ok
	readlink     : ok
	wc           : ok
	port-helper  : ok
	tunctl       : ok
	uml_mconsole : ok
	uml_switch   : ok
passed.
>  Checking for availability of terminal emulator applications:
	xterm          : found
	konsole        : not found
	gnome-terminal : found
passed.
>  Checking filesystem type... passed.
>  Checking whether executables can run... failed!

*** Error: Your system appears not to be able to run the linux kernel.


[ ERROR ] Your system is not configured properly. Please correct the
          above errors before starting to use Netkit.

Some processes are present in the host after exit by halt command

If each machine is stopped with the halt command (at the opposite of the global lhalt), two processes are still present:

uml_switch -hub 
awk -v SWITCHNAME=...

Cannot start second console

There seems to be an issue with multiple consoles. Specifying in a lab.conf file the "A[con1]=xterm" directive does not raise an error, but does not open the second terminal on host A either.

Thank you
Claude.

modules are not mounted at boot

Missing dynamic library dependency when calling vhalt

Issue reported by @bingel74

Another problem has occurred when I was testing if netkit was working properly: after starting a virtual
machine, when I stopped it with the command "vhalt -r pc1", this command did not work. I had to stop
the virtual machine sending shutdown command inside the virtual machine.

Build amd64 netkit-ng

It is needed because i386 needs more some i386 dependencies (see bug #8).

(and nobody cares about i386 support)