Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> writes: > 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.
Could this be related to cached resolution failures in nscd? Have you tried restarting the nscd service? ~~ Ricardo