setup-udev breaks networking in 3.8 under vmware workstation player - eth0 vanishes
tldr - in setup-udev, the line “rm -f /etc/runlevels/sysinit/hwdrivers /etc/runlevels/sysinit/mdev” breaks networking on the next reboot. Removing it fixes that problem, but I don’t know if it causes other problems. (“breaks networking” means “eth0 not found next time I reboot”)
I’m new to Alpine, and trying to install 3.8 on VMware workstation player under Windows 7. (I’ve installed a bunch of other Linuxes in this environment; most of them work fine.) I’ve tried several installation modes (sys, or boot-from-crdom as data), and most of them work ok but they all break when I install setup-xorg-base. I debugged that and found that it’s all ok until the last line, which is setup-udev. So I tried debugging setup-udev
- The line that seems to matter is “rm -f /etc/runlevels/sysinit/hwdrivers /etc/runlevels/sysinit/mdev”. If I delete that line, run it, save everything, and reboot, it all works fine. (However, I don’t know if it breaks anything else.)
(from redmine: issue id 9090, created on 2018-07-16)