Re: resolvconf issue

[Alexander Sack <asac ubuntu com>]

On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 01:49:03PM +0200, Ferenc Engárd wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> First, I would like to welcome everybody, as this is my first mail to this
> list.
> 
> I am using vanilla Ubuntu 9.04 with n-m. I have read that n-m supports
> resolvconf, but unfortunately it overwrites /etc/resolv.conf directly (I
> tried with wlan connection). This causes problems to me as I cannot use e.g.
> vpnc from scripts conveniently. Is there any config setting which should be
> set to utilize the resolvconf instead of writing resolv.conf directly?
> 
> If I understood correctly the main work is done by nm-dhcp-client.action.
> But there is no documentation about it...

there is a racy issue with resolvconf. stop NetworkManager ... then dpkg-reconfigure
resolvconf _before_ starting it again.

The fix would probably be to teach network manager to follow links even if it doesnt
use resolvconf

 - Alexander