Showing posts tagged #Ubuntu - Show all

Resolving DNS issues after removing Docker package on Ubuntu

March 24, 2017

After installing Docker package docker.io from official Ubuntu repo and then removing it (to install the latest version from Docker's own repo instead), I found that my server could not resolve hostnames anymore (back then I didn't know yet it was caused by Docker though). After reboot, /etc/resolv.conf was blank, although files in /etc/network/interfaces.d/* files were intact and contained the correct DNS servers.

/etc/resolv.conf nowadays is actually a symlink to a file managed by resolvconf, which is being passed DNS server list by ifup on reboot.

What happened is, docker.io package depends on ubuntu-fan package which installs /etc/network/if-up.d/ubuntu-fan script to be called by ifup (and other scripts for ifdown, etc.). When I removed Docker and then ran apt autoremove, it removed ubuntu-fan package, but left the scripts. On next reboot, ifup tried to execute them, but the actual fanctl executable was no longer there, ifup was half-failing and not calling resolvconf, although the interface was up (I'm not sure why, as /etc/network/if-up.d/000resolvconf should be called first and not affected by later scripts).

The solution is to run apt-get purge ubuntu-fan which will delete residual configuration files, and restart the server.

ยท