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Emulab FAQ: Testbed Operations: Problem getting hostname set, resulting in TBFAILED?

> > *** WARNING: pc51 reported a TBFAILED event; not retrying
>
> Here is part of the console log from pc51:
>
>   Starting elvin proxy daemon
>   Aug 22 10:24:52  evproxy[265]: could not get IP address from hostname: ...emulab.net^M
>   *** /usr/local/etc/emulab/rc/rc.bootsetup:
>       Error running /usr/local/etc/emulab/evproxy
>...
>   Mon Aug 22 10:26:24 MDT 2005
>   ^M
>   FreeBSD/i386 (...emulab.net) (console)^M
>   ^M
>
> So, it figured out it was allocated correctly...  But, it's hostname isn't
> right, has anyone seen that before?
>

Usually a tmcc failure from the sethostname script.

Try again with the -UPDATE image.