Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 256761
anaconda fails on manually configuring network interface when ipv4 disabled
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:47 EST
Description of problem: When configuring the network interface, there is an option to select DHCP or manual configuration. Then there is a checkbox "Enable ipv4". When this checkbox is not selected, it is impossible to enter IP address for the given interface. After clicking OK for the dialog, anaconda reports exception, complaining about missing IP address and the installation halts. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run installation of RHEL from optical media. 2. Bring up the box for configuring network interface (e.g. by trying to add iscsi target during disk partitioning). 3. Uncheck the use dhcp box and use ipv4 box. 4. Click OK. Actual results: The installation stops, reporting missing address exception. Expected results: a) Recover from the error, allowing to correct the mistake or b) Do not allow user to uncheck the box, if the address is really required. Additional info: I tried it on RHEL 5 Server and RHEL 5.1 snapshot 0822. Sorry for not providing exact messages, I have troubles running kvm console - just ask if you need something.
The iSCSI netconfig dialog box is not like any of the other netconfig dialog boxes in anaconda. Easiest fix here is either remove the Enable IPv4 checkbox or force it to be selected all the time. That would be minimal UI change and I'm leaning towards having it there, but forcing it to be selected all the time. Flagging for 5.2. Thanks for the report.
I just worked on this for the past two days for RHEL 5.1. I'm pretty sure this is the same bug, so I'm duping it.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 235824 ***