Bug 532593

Summary:	Upgrade from RHEL4U7 to U8 fails to bring up networking with forcedeth driver. [simple patch]
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Jeremy West <jwest>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Ivan Vecera <ivecera>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Network QE <network-qe>
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:
Priority:	urgent
Version:	4.8	CC:	dhoward, dmaley, dtian, emcnabb, fleitner, ivecera, peterm, rbinkhor, rryder, tao
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Regression, ZStream
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	A fix in the Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:1024 introduced a regression. After updating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8 and rebooting, network links often failed to be brought up for interfaces using the forcedeth driver. Additionally, "no link during initialization" messages may have been logged.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:	531810	Environment:
Last Closed:	2011-02-16 15:40:23 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:	531810
Bug Blocks:	534112

Comment 5 RHEL Program Management 2009-11-05 08:51:52 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 8 Ivan Vecera 2009-11-10 17:14:20 UTC

*** Bug 531810 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Vivek Goyal 2009-11-16 16:02:31 UTC

Committed in 89.16.EL . RPMS are available at http://people.redhat.com/vgoyal/rhel4/

Comment 11 Ivan Vecera 2009-11-20 08:13:59 UTC

*** Bug 492199 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 21 Douglas Silas 2011-01-30 22:54:28 UTC

    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
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    New Contents:
A fix in the Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:1024 introduced a regression. After updating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8 and rebooting, network links often failed to be brought up for interfaces using the forcedeth driver. Additionally, "no link during initialization" messages may have been logged.

Comment 22 errata-xmlrpc 2011-02-16 15:40:23 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0263.html