From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031030 Description of problem: My modprobe.conf contains: install eth1 custom-command-to-setup-interface but ifup fails to load this module. The problem is in the is_available function in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions this function does: alias=`modprobe -c | awk "/^alias $1 / { print \\$3 }"` and will not recognice the install directive correctly Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-7.42-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Additional info:
Created attachment 96054 [details] A patch for the problem
Fixed thusly: @@ -174,8 +174,8 @@ LC_ALL= LANG= ip -o link | grep -q $1 [ "$?" = "1" ] || return 0 - alias=`modprobe -c | awk "/^alias $1 / { print \\$3 }"` - if [ -z "$alias" -o "$alias" = "off" ]; then + alias=`modprobe -c | awk "/^(alias|install) $1 / { print \\$3 }"` + if [ -z "$alias" -o "$alias" = "off" -o "$alias" = "/bin/true" ]; then return 2 fi HOTPLUG=`cat /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug`
Will be in 7.44-1.