Bug 1022977
| Summary: | DOC: document that sysctl variables for loadable modules must be set using udev rules | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Paul Knox-Kennedy <paul.knox-kennedy> |
| Component: | systemd | Assignee: | systemd-maint |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 20 | CC: | agk, awilliam, cra, dcbw, deanhunter, harald, herrold, johannbg, kay, lnykryn, lpoetter, martin.wilck, mmarzantowicz, mschmidt, msekleta, plautrba, s, systemd-maint, vpavlin, zbyszek |
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | systemd-208-20.fc20 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
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| Last Closed: | 2014-07-22 03:30:28 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Paul Knox-Kennedy
2013-10-24 11:51:26 UTC
Raised upstream bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710858 You found an interesting workaround, but I think this is rather a systemd problem than a NetworkManager bug. The problem is caused simply by the fact that systemd-sysctl service starts before "bridge.ko" is loaded in the kernel. NetworkManager is not necessary to trigger this bug. Simply running "modprobe bridge" in runlevel S will have the same effect. This effect has been known at least since 2010 (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512206#c13). I came up with a different workaround: 1. echo bridge >/etc/modules-load.d/bridge.conf 2. add "systemd-modules-load.service" in the "After" clause in /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-sysctl.service. This is slightly more complex as your workaround, but it works also in the non-NM case. I'm not sure how the systemd folks could fix this cleanly. It's a generic problem - some sysctl settings depend on modules being loaded. *** Bug 1093421 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I'm reassigning this to systemd, since it does not seem NM related. Not really a bug, but rather a missing feature. This is always, and necessarily racy. If you want to set sysctls for loadable modules I fear there's no way around doing so from udev rules, that are run when the kernel module is loaded. This pops up regularly, for example here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-March/009851.html or here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-June/020135.html But this is nothing we can fix really. I will now rename the bug and turn this into a documentation thing: we should document this better so that we at least can point people to docs about this the next time. Looking at http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-March/009851.html again, I think we are making it unnecessarily hard to apply sysctl settings. It *is* true that modules can be loaded at any time asynchronously, but - adding a module name to /etc/modules-load.d/... - making systemd-sysctl.service After=systemd-modules-load.service - adding stuff /etc/sysctl.d/ for settings which are created when the module is loaded is a reliable and *easy*. It might not be the perfect way, but it is hard to screw up, especially in comparison to udev rules. And adding this additional dependency is not going to make things measurably slower..., systemd-sysctl.service is nearly instantenous, and we have the rich dependency language to make such things easy. I'm inclined to apply the patch. Zbigniew, if you apply it, i wouldn't revert it... I am still favouring to add some easy example to do the same properly with udev rules though somewhere, and then guiding people to that... But maybe that solution isn't exclusive to yours... http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=0b73eab http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=7284335 systemd-208-20.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/systemd-208-20.fc20 I am sorry, but I am having difficulty following the patches and change this but dont change that. Please, could you post here the recommended bridge configuration changes so that my virtual machines can participate on my network as peers of my physical machines? I have one of the alternatives discussed here or another place implemented, but I sense now that it is not the "preferred / recommended / least likely to cause problems in the future" implementation. Package systemd-208-20.fc20: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 20 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing systemd-208-20.fc20' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-8572/systemd-208-20.fc20 then log in and leave karma (feedback). (In reply to Dean Hunter from comment #11) Dean, you do not need to read the patches. Just update to systemd-208-20.fc20, and then read "man sysctl.d". The man page has been updated with helpful hints, including the examples. If something is still unclear, let us know. systemd-208-20.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=634736 is the sort of parent bug for this issue. |