Bug 534112

Summary: Upgrade from RHEL4U7 to U8 fails to bring up networking with forcedeth driver. [simple patch] [rhel-4.8.z]
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component: kernelAssignee: Vitaly Mayatskikh <vmayatsk>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 4.8CC: dhoward, emcnabb, fleitner, ivecera, peterm, pm-eus, tao, vmayatsk
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Regression, ZStream
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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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.
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Last Closed: 2009-12-15 17:19:06 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 532593    
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Description RHEL Program Management 2009-11-10 15:47:30 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #532593 and has been proposed
to be backported to 4.8 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 4 Vitaly Mayatskikh 2009-11-30 21:33:02 UTC
Committed in 89.0.18

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2009-12-15 17:19:06 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-2009-1671.html

Comment 11 Douglas Silas 2011-01-30 22:54:18 UTC
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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.