Bug 1158838

Summary: with NetworkManager-0.9.10.0-10.git20140704.fc21.x86_64 I can no longer get DHCP address
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmavrogi>
Component: NetworkManagerAssignee: Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 21CC: alexander, dcbw, jklimes, psimerda
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Description Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos 2014-10-30 10:50:08 UTC 
My latest update in Fedora 21 caused my ethernet connection not to be able to connect, and I can no longer update that system.

The network manager version in question is:
$ rpm -q NetworkManager
NetworkManager-0.9.10.0-10.git20140704.fc21.x86_64

And the log I get follows. The interesting part seems to be "assertion 'priv->client_type != 0' failed", which I have no idea what it means.


Oct 30 11:43:12 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[637]: <info> (eth0): device state change: failed -> disconnected (reason 'none') [120 30 0]
Oct 30 11:43:12 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[637]: <info> (eth0): deactivating device (reason 'none') [0]
Oct 30 11:43:12 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[637]: <info> Auto-activating connection 'eth0'.
Oct 30 11:43:12 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[637]: <info> Activation (eth0) starting connection 'eth0'
Oct 30 11:43:12 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[637]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
Oct 30 11:43:12 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[637]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started...
Oct 30 11:43:12 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[637]: <info> (eth0): device state change: disconnected -> prepare (reason 'none') [30 40 0]
Oct 30 11:43:12 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[637]: <info> NetworkManager state is now CONNECTING
Oct 30 11:43:12 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[637]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled...
Oct 30 11:43:12 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[637]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
Oct 30 11:43:12 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[637]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting...
Oct 30 11:43:12 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[637]: <info> (eth0): device state change: prepare -> config (reason 'none') [40 50 0]
Oct 30 11:43:12 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[637]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) successful.
Oct 30 11:43:12 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[637]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.
Oct 30 11:43:12 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[637]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) scheduled.
Oct 30 11:43:12 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[637]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) started...
Oct 30 11:43:12 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[637]: <info> (eth0): device state change: config -> ip-config (reason 'none') [50 70 0]
Oct 30 11:43:12 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[637]: client_start: assertion 'priv->client_type != 0' failed
Oct 30 11:43:12 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[637]: <info> (eth0): device state change: ip-config -> failed (reason 'dhcp-start-failed') [70 120 15]
Oct 30 11:43:12 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[637]: <info> NetworkManager state is now DISCONNECTED
Oct 30 11:43:12 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[637]: <info> Disabling autoconnect for connection 'eth0'.
Oct 30 11:43:12 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[637]: <warn> Activation (eth0) failed for connection 'eth0'
Oct 30 11:43:12 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[637]: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) complete.
Oct 30 11:43:12 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[637]: <info> (eth0): device state change: failed -> disconnected (reason 'none') [120 30 0]
Oct 30 11:43:12 localhost.localdomain NetworkManager[637]: <info> (eth0): deactivating device (reason 'none') [0]
Comment 1 Jirka Klimes 2014-11-10 08:21:47 UTC 
It may be that you don't have any DHCP client installed.
$ rpm -q dhclient

Please check and update your installation?
Comment 2 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos 2014-11-10 08:32:47 UTC 
$ rpm -q dhclient
dhclient-4.3.1-8.fc21.x86_64
Comment 3 Alexander Lindqvist 2014-11-14 10:07:36 UTC 
I have the same problem  with Fedora 21 Beta 4 clean install and also after update.

$ rpm -q dhclient
dhclient-4.3.1-8.fc21.x86_64
Comment 4 Alexander Lindqvist 2014-11-14 10:20:01 UTC 
I have the same problem  with Fedora 21 Beta 4 clean install and also after update.

$ rpm -q dhclient
dhclient-4.3.1-8.fc21.x86_64

# systemctl status dhclient
● dhclient.service
   Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory)
   Active: inactive (dead)
Comment 5 Alexander Lindqvist 2014-11-14 19:08:39 UTC 
My issue was solved.

creating /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf and adding the following line solved the issue:

send dhcp-client-identifier = hardware;

This was found in bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1154200

DHCP server in this case was a Cisco RV320 Router.
Comment 6 Jirka Klimes 2014-11-18 09:55:41 UTC 
Alexander, thank you for the analysis.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1154200 ***