Bug 252270

Summary: ifup/NetworkManager interaction degradation between 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 and 2.6.22.1-41.fc7
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: David Campbell <david>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description David Campbell 2007-08-15 01:27:10 UTC
Description of problem:

In the 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 release, if you have the NetworkManager service
running, then the ifdown and ifup commands work fine.

In the 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 release, if you have the NetworkManager service running,
then the ifdown command works fine but you get errors as below with the ifup
command.

It seems that both the NetworkManager and ifup are running dhclient at the same
time, and that is what is causing the trouble.

Yes, NetworkManager is in the large part meant to be used separately from
ifup/ifdown, but this interaction issue seems to be an unfriendly step
backwards, and there are times when you do want to manually force the interface
to be restarted and don't expect to get these errors.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

2.6.22.1-41.fc7

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Allow your network connection to be configured by NetworkManager (I used a
wired ethernet connection)
2. ifdown the network interface
3. ifup the network interface and see errors
  
Actual results:

Here's what I see with 2.6.22.1-41.fc7:

[root@localhost ~]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 #1 SMP Fri Jul 27 18:10:34 EDT 2007
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root@localhost ~]# ifdown eth0
[root@localhost ~]# ifup eth0

Determining IP information for eth0.../etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth:
line 273:  6166 Terminated              /sbin/dhclient ${DHCLIENTARGS} ${DEVICE}
 failed.


Here's what I see with the older 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7:

[root@localhost ~]# uname -a
Linux Vigor14 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 #1 SMP Wed May 23 22:35:01 EDT 2007 i686 i686
i386 GNU/Linux
[root@localhost ~]# ifdown eth0
[root@localhost ~]# ifup eth0

Determining IP information for eth0... done.

[root@localhost ~]# 

Expected results:

No errors

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2007-08-29 17:24:36 UTC
Shouldn't make a difference. How is dhclient being terminated?

Comment 2 David Campbell 2007-08-29 22:30:14 UTC
The dhclient isn't being terminated by me.... the termination message is the
error I get from the scripts without any manual intervention.

I presume that the dhclient is being terminated because when ifup runs, it
brings up the network interface, and before the script gets opportunity to run
dhclient, NetworkManager runs dhclient, and then in a moment ifup runs its own
dhclient...so  together they are attempting to run two copies of dhclient
simultaneously which causes problems.


Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2007-08-30 02:58:12 UTC
Right, but that should be the same in either case with the kernel. If you run
dhclient by hand with the same arguments, does it also fail?

Comment 4 David Campbell 2007-08-30 23:44:41 UTC
If I run dhclient by hand, NetworkManager does indeed kill it off.  Killing off
other dhclient processes whether they are running as invoked from ifup or
directly on the commandline seems to be a feature of NetworkManager, at least in
this version of it.  The ifup script does not gracefully handle having its
dhclient killed off by NetworkManager.


Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2007-08-31 02:23:09 UTC
And this behavior changed when you upgraded kernels, not with a new NetworkManager?

Comment 6 David Campbell 2007-09-26 23:46:03 UTC
It does seem likely that this changed with a new NetworkManager but I remain
unsure of what component changed to introduce this problem

Comment 7 David Campbell 2007-11-20 04:30:26 UTC
This problem also visible on f8 (2.6.23.1-49.fc8)

While NetworkManager running....

[root@localhost ~]# ifdown eth0
[root@localhost ~]# ifup eth0

Determining IP information for eth0...dhclient(3699) is already running - exiting. 
This version of ISC DHCP is based on the release available
on ftp.isc.org.  Features have been added and other changes
have been made to the base software release in order to make
it work better with this distribution.
Please report for this software via the Red Hat Bugzilla site:
    http://bugzilla.redhat.com
exiting.
 failed.



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