3733 – my /etc/hosts got overwritten

Bug 3733 - my /etc/hosts got overwritten

Summary: my /etc/hosts got overwritten

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High major
Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2002-06-14 11:39 UTC by Gregg
Modified:	2003-02-04 19:42 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Gregg 2002-06-14 11:39:51 UTC

My CONFIG_PROTECT is set, and contains /etc.

I had installed from the 1.1a 16 meg iso image.  I had added 8 ip / hostname 
lines to my /etc/hosts.

After doing an emerge -u system, and world.  my /etc/hosts was overwritten with 
a new one that just conatined the localhost / 127.0.0.1.

Comment 1 Gregg 2002-06-18 15:28:40 UTC

When I did it again, thinking that by some chance it was my fault. Again it 
killed /etc/hosts, but also modules.autoload, /etc/group and my /etc/conf.d/net 
were all overwritten.  And again CONFIG_PROTECT was set.  Hope this helps.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2002-06-18 19:21:37 UTC

when you go from stage1 to stage2, the script 'scripts/bootstrap.sh' will kill 
all your config files ... its supposed to ...
dont go setting up any variables/settings/etc... until after you bootstrap

Comment 3 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-06-20 13:12:47 UTC

Adding bug reporter to cc:

Comment 4 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-09-03 12:44:48 UTC

Haven't been able to reproduce this bug; closing.