dhcpcd requires an interface name as parameter to work. We are now getting it from /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/ folder children. dhclient on Debian also has the problem, thus use the guessed interface name for it too. --- appliance/init | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/appliance/init b/appliance/init index cca62e7..d5a428d 100755 --- a/appliance/init +++ b/appliance/init @@ -108,10 +108,11 @@ ip addr add 127.0.0.1/8 brd + dev lo scope host ip link set dev lo up if test "$guestfs_network" = 1; then + iface=$(ls -I all -I default -I lo /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf) if dhclient --version >/dev/null 2>&1; then - dhclient + dhclient $iface else - dhcpcd + dhcpcd $iface fi fi