Bug 752266

Summary:	Install DVD rescue mode network setup fails
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Tom Trebisky <tom>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	16	CC:	anaconda-maint-list, jonathan, rvykydal, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description Tom Trebisky 2011-11-09 00:40:42 UTC

Description of problem:

After filling out static IP info in the dialog provided on the
install DVD under rescue mode, the network is inoperative.


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

Fedora 16 x86_64 install DVD


How reproducible:

Insert the DVD, follow the dialogs into rescue mode,
answer yes to bringing up network.  Enter static ipv4
IP numbers and procede to single user mode.
I did not configure ipv6 values (we don't do that here
and our routers don't support it).

  
Actual results:

I tested the network by pinging IP numbers on our local LAN.
I get "destination host unreachable".

ifconfig -a shows the interface as UP, RUNNING, and properly
configured to my eye.  One odd thing is no received packets,
this is odd because our LAN is very busy with lots of broadcast
traffic, so I would expect non-zero receive packet counts.

lspci shows I have an nVidia CK804 ethernet on my motherboard.


Expected results:

Ability to ping and otherwise access hosts on our LAN once I am
in a single user shell.


Additional info:

Immediately after giving up on this, I repeated the process with a
Fedora 15 install DVD, filling out the menus in the same way, this
time it all works fine.

If more info is needed, I will be happy to try to provide it.

Of course this may turn out to be other than anaconda, but this is
my first best guess about how to file the bug.

Comment 1 Radek Vykydal 2011-11-09 08:43:45 UTC

I can't reproduce it. Can you please attach /tmp/anaconda.log, /tmp/syslog, output of ifconfig and route gathered in rescue environment? Thanks.

Comment 2 Tom Trebisky 2011-11-10 21:09:06 UTC

I am closing this.  It works for me now.

I don't know what I was doing wrong yesterday (and I tried it twice, honest)
but I clearly was entering something erroneous for static IP configuration.

I am sorry, embarrassed, and apologize for wasting your time.

Today I tried:

Live CD i686 - let it use DHCP -- fine!
Install CD, Rescue mode, let it use DHCP -- fine!
Install CD, Rescue mode, static ipv4 only -- fine !