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Description of problem: Installing Fedora 25 in a Xen HVM domU with a paravirtualized NIC (vif) and configuring a static IPv4 IP, route and DNS server results in these settings being ignored and DHCP used instead upon the initial reboot. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.4.2-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to reproduce: 1. Install using Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-25-1.3.iso (I selected "Minimal Install") 2. Configure static IPv4 3. Begin installation 4. Reboot after the installation has finished 5. The system is using DHCP instead of the manually entered IPv4 settings during setup Actual results: eth0 is using DHCP instead of the manually configured IPv4 settings during setup. Expected results: eth0 should be using the manually configured IPv4 settings during setup. Additional info: The file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 exists and does in fact contain the correct IPv4 information entered during the setup. # nmcli connection NAME UUID TYPE DEVICE Wired connection 1 7bac94c9-9022-384f-897b-a0314eee14b0 802-3-ethernet eth0 (GREEN COLORED LINE) eth0 b8e69077-a2b4-3de4-9fd7-097eda50b7e3 802-3-ethernet -- (WHITE COLORED LINE) # nmcli device DEVICE TYPE STATE CONNECTION eth0 ethernet connected Wired connection 1 (GREEN COLORED LINE) lo loopback unmanaged -- (BLUEISH COLORED LINE) Workaround: After some trial and error of reinstalling the VM a couple of times I came up with the following workaround: 1. Verify the IP address using: ip addr show eth0 Then execute these commands: 2. nmcli connection delete "Wired connection 1" 3. nmcli connection delete "Wired connection 1" Yes, this must be executed twice. If you do it once, it will still be set to the address received via DHCP. 4. Verify the IP again using: ip addr show eth0 It should now be using the manually configured IPv4 address that was entered during setup. After executing the above workaround, the nmcli output has changed a little bit as follows: # nmcli connection NAME UUID TYPE DEVICE eth0 b8e69077-a2b4-3de4-9fd7-097eda50b7e3 802-3-ethernet eth0 (GREEN COLORED LINE) Wired connection 1 7bac94c9-9022-384f-897b-a0314eee14b0 802-3-ethernet -- (WHITE COLORED LINE) # nmcli device DEVICE TYPE STATE CONNECTION eth0 ethernet connected eth0 (GREEN COLORED LINE) lo loopback unmanaged -- (BLUEISH COLORED LINE)
Note: In the description section I meant to type gateway instead of route.
A much better workaround I just found was to create an additional config file called /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/no-auto-default.conf with this as the content of the file: [main] no-auto-default=* This prevents the "Wired connection 1" from always being recreated and is much more in line to what I saw in Fedora 20, where this bug did not exist, and no "Wired connection 1" was ever created. Another note: If I emulate a NIC instead (I tested the Intel e1000), then this bug does not occur.
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