Hi Andrew,
yes this makes it more worse, I can confirm it.
The new approach will be to stop the initrd from killing dhclient.
Here's the patch, but it's not yet tested:
diff --git a/bin/fai-make-nfsroot b/bin/fai-make-nfsroot
index 3b9fbb6e..02b332a4 100755
--- a/bin/fai-make-nfsroot
+++ b/bin/fai-make-nfsroot
@@ -458,6 +458,7 @@ EOF
# remove file diversion, then create initrd
rm $NFSROOT/etc/kernel/postinst.d/dracut
$ROOTCMD dpkg-divert --rename --remove /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dracut
+ rm -f $NFSROOT/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/35network-legacy/kill-dhclient.sh
$ROOTCMD dpkg-reconfigure dracut
set_root_pw
>>>>> On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 20:20:08 +1200, Andrew Ruthven <and...@etc.gen.nz>
>>>>> said:
> On Thu, 2021-04-29 at 22:48 +1200, Andrew Ruthven wrote:
>> Is there an approach so that ISO images created with fai-cd
> perform
>> DHCP lease renewals?
> As a workaround, you could write a hook, that starts dhclient.
> Since the hooks are on the ISO and will be executed, this should
work
> until I release a new FAI version with a fix.
> Yup, sure thing. I'll see about doing this tomorrow.
> I can now confirm that this didn't work, in fact it made things worse!
> Running dhclient caused a second IP to be allocated to the machine being
built which then
> caused the nfsroot to become unreachable.
