Bug 110908 - network profiles break when upgrading from RedHat 9
Summary: network profiles break when upgrading from RedHat 9
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: redhat-config-network
Version: 1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Harald Hoyer
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-11-25 14:44 UTC by Andy Grimm
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-06-03 04:08:33 UTC
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Description Andy Grimm 2003-11-25 14:44:18 UTC
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Description of problem:
I have upgraded two laptops from RedHat 9 to Fedora Core 1, and in
both cases there were issues with network profiles after the upgrade.
 I have grub configurations specifying parameters such as
"netprofile=Work" or "netprofile=Home", and for whatever reason, the
network start-up was loading multiple profiles.  For example, it would
load the "Home" configuration, but then also load the "Work"
configuration.  the result was that the IP would be determined by the
last one loaded.  Also, there would be multiple hard links in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts  ... ifcfg_eth0_work and
ifcfg_eth0_home.  I eventually fixed my profiles by hand, editing
/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/* and changing som hard links.  On
my coworker's laptop, I removed all of the profiles and started from
scratch.  I'd like to see these upgrades go a bit more smoothly.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
redhat-config-network-1.3.10-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install RedHat 9
2. Set up multiple network profiles using redhat-config-network (we
have 3 or 4 each)
3. Upgrade to Fedora Core 1
4. Try to boot while specifying netprofile=<profilename> on the kernel
line
    

Actual Results:  Multiple network profiles loaded at the same time

Expected Results:  Settings from RedHat 9 should have been preserved

Additional info:

A sample of our network profile layout:

Home: Usually a wireless card setup with WEP, and either static or DHCP
Work: Wired, static IP
DHCP_Wired:  for travel
DHCP_Wireless: for coffeehouses  :-)

Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2003-11-26 14:46:03 UTC
the initscripts should start up, what is in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*
Did the profile switching leave some files from the other profile in
there??

Comment 2 Andy Grimm 2004-06-03 04:08:33 UTC
Nobody is really interested in this bug anymore.  I've stopped trying
to use the network profile switching, since it's a real mess to begin
with.  I'm going to just mark this closed.


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