Bug 694708

Summary: NetworkManager does not start network (eth0) when booting to runlevel 3
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Erik Johansson <erikjsvensk>
Component: NetworkManagerAssignee: Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: dcbw, jklimes
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Description Erik Johansson 2011-04-08 04:56:22 UTC
Description of problem: 
I had to boot to runlevel 3 to recover from a new xorg release clobbering my ATI Catalyst driver (I had a blank screen). I needed network access and found I had only loopback, although the NetworkManager was running. I ended up having to manually create an ifcfg-eth0 file and restart the network service to get access to the network. After installing a new Catlyst driver and rebooting, all is well.

runlevel 3 is supposed to include network access, so this is a problem.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
NetworkManager 0.8.3.998-2.fc14 x86_64

How reproducible:
See below.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot in single user mode
2. init 3 to go to runlevel 3
3. attempt to access the network which will fail
  
Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 Jirka Klimes 2011-05-05 12:11:22 UTC
NetworkManager needs a connection to activate it. You should have ifcfg-eth0 file (it is created by installer initially). Moreover, in order to start connection automatically, ONBOOT=yes has to present there. Otherwise the connection is not started automatically, but you can activate it manually via 'ifup eth0'.

Comment 2 Erik Johansson 2011-05-05 14:38:07 UTC
Hi Jirka,

Thanks for the reply. There was no ifcfg-eth0 file -- I had to manually create it. I use a standard live-CD install of F14 (x86_64). If the file is missing from a standard install, then it is a problem. I will check my other F14 systems to see if they are missing the file as well.

Thanks,

Erik

Comment 3 Erik Johansson 2011-05-05 16:39:10 UTC
Hi again,

I just verified on my office laptop, which has a recent install of F14: there is no ifcfg-eth0 file. The /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices dir is empty.

This means the user has to manually create the file if it is needed.

Somehow there is a disconnect between the files the Network Manager assumes are available and what the installer creates.

Thanks,

Erik

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