On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 09:04:41AM +0100, Florian Paul Schmidt wrote: > After booting the installer image, doing the ifconfig/dhclient dance, > preparing the target fs, mounting it and starting the guix system init > invocation at some point in time, though not predictably so, but > usually after a couple of minutes (about 10 or so) name resolution > will start to fail causing guix system init to fail.
A little more information: I was installing on i686 bare metal from the current USB installation image. I installed vim in the installation environment, and then when I tried to run `guix system init...` I couldn't resolve hydra.gnu.org, google.com, and a few other sites. I could resolve the domain famulari.name, but not another domain that points to the same machine. I installed dig and could successfully query the nameserver described in /etc/resolv.conf for hydra.gnu.org. I never have name resolution problems on this network with my other machines. I decided to edit /etc/hosts so I could continue with the installation. If anyone has any ideas about how to debug this, I'm happy to help.
