Wednesday, February 25, 2009

resolvconf: Error: /etc/resolv.conf must be a symlink

fix:
/etc$ sudo ln -s /etc/resolvconf/run/resolv.conf
at

5 comments:

  1. BVJuly 14, 2009 at 11:03 AM

    Great..that worked...thanks for posting the solution

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  2. H TJanuary 21, 2010 at 9:50 AM

    Actually, for me it required to follow the following steps (I learned from launchpad, bug #324233):

    Before:

    $ ls -l /etc/resolv.conf
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 2009-08-16 13:38 /etc/resolv.conf

    $ sudo mkdir /etc/postfix
    $ sudo touch /etc/postfix/main.cf
    $ sudo rm /etc/resolv.conf
    $ sudo ln -s /etc/resolvconf/run/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf
    $ ls -l /etc/resolv.conf
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2009-08-16 13:42 /etc/resolv.conf -> /etc/resolvconf/run/resolv.conf
    $ sudo reboot

    After:

    $ ls -l /etc/resolv.conf
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2009-08-16 13:42 /etc/resolv.conf -> /etc/resolvconf/run/resolv.conf

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  3. n0b3l1aApril 11, 2010 at 9:15 AM

    thx for the post Hamidreza.

    I didn't have this file with my system

    /etc/resolvconf/run/resolv.conf

    also, if anyone's trying it out, make sure to always backup your files before removing them.

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  4. AnonymousJune 24, 2010 at 4:04 PM

    thanks for your post

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  5. allpopularOctober 26, 2010 at 10:50 PM

    The basic solution worked for me. Thanks!


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