Bug 1397287 - Determining IP information for eth0 ... interface name too long
Summary: Determining IP information for eth0 ... interface name too long
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: dhcp
Version: 6.9
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
low
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Pavel Zhukov
QA Contact: Release Test Team
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-11-22 07:48 UTC by Sudhir Menon
Modified: 2018-08-20 11:02 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-04-24 08:39:01 UTC
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Description Sudhir Menon 2016-11-22 07:48:29 UTC
Description of problem: Determining IP information for eth0 ... interface name too long

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL 6.9 Beta (Santiago)

How reproducible:Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install RHEL6.9 Server.
2. Try to bring the eth0 interface up

Actual results:
Unable to obtain IP address from DHCP server and when the interface is shutdown and started again using ifup it gives the below message

"Determining IP Information for eth0 .../var/run/dhclient-eth0.pid: interface name too long (is 26)

This version of ISC DHCP is based on the release available on ftp.isc.org. Feature have been added and other changes have been made to the base software release in order to make it work better with this distribution


Please report for this software via the RedHat bugzilla site http://bugzilla.redhat.com exiting. failed.

Unable to obtain IPv4 DHCP address eth0
RTNETLINK answers: File exists.

Expected results:

Additional info:

Comment 1 Sudhir Menon 2016-11-22 10:43:24 UTC
Version: 

cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 6.9 Beta (Santiago)
kernel-2.6.32-671.el6.x86_64
dhcp-common-4.1.1-53.P1.el6.x86_64
Build: RHEL-6.9-20161121.n.0


===cat /var/log/messages===
Nov 22 07:45:14 client /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth: Unable to obtain IPv4 DHCP address eth0
Nov 22 07:45:14 client dhclient[2338]: /var/run/dhclient-eth0.pid: interface name too long (is 26)
Nov 22 07:45:14 client dhclient[2338]:
Nov 22 07:45:14 client dhclient[2338]: This version of ISC DHCP is based on the release available.
Nov 22 07:45:14 client dhclient[2338]: on ftp.isc.org. Features have been added and other changes.
Nov 22 07:45:14 client dhclient[2338]: have been made to the base software release in order to make
Nov 22 07:45:14 client dhclient[2338]: it work better with this distribution.
Nov 22 07:45:14 client dhclient[2338]:
Nov 22 07:45:14 client dhclient[2338]: Please report for this software via the Red Hat Bugzilla site
Nov 22 07:45:14 client dhclient[2338]: http://bugzilla.redhat.com
Nov 22 07:45:14 client dhclient[2338]:
Nov 22 07:45:14 client dhclient[2338]: exiting.
Nov 22 07:45:14 client /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth: Unable to obtain IPv4 DHCP address eth0

Comment 5 Pavel Zhukov 2017-04-07 19:00:02 UTC
Hello,
Thank you for the report.

Can you please add information about version of initscripts package installed?
rpm -qi initscripts

Thank you!

Comment 8 Pavel Zhukov 2017-04-24 08:39:01 UTC
Thank you for reporting this.
First of all the bug should be reported against initscripts or reproduced with using of dchlient only.
The bug was reported against beta version of software and most likely fixed in initscript version released.
I'm closing the bug because of leak of data to analyze. Please reproduce the issue with stable version and reopen the bug with proper component if needed.


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