Bug 445051 - network interfaces won't start after upgrade (e1000e more fussy)
Summary: network interfaces won't start after upgrade (e1000e more fussy)
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-05-02 23:13 UTC by Andrew Bartlett
Modified: 2009-07-14 13:58 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-07-14 13:58:58 UTC
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Description Andrew Bartlett 2008-05-02 23:13:14 UTC
Description of problem:
After upgrade of system not using NetworkManager from Fedora 8 to rawhide (pre
Fedora 9), the network interface won't come up. 

Network driver is e1000e

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.25-14.fc9.x86_64
initscripts-8.74-1.x86_64
dhclient-4.0.0-14.fc9.x86_64

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. service network stop
2. service network start
3.
  
Actual results:
Bringing up loopback interface:                            [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface eth0:  
Determining IP information for eth0... failed; no link present.  Check cable?
                                                           [FAILED]

Log shows:
May  3 08:58:05 naomi kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready

Expected results:
Bringing up loopback interface:                            [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface eth0:  
Determining IP information for eth0... done.
                                                           [  OK  ]


Additional info:

ethtool shows a link at only 100Mbit (should be 1000Mbit) intermittently, other
times shows no link. 

Removing patch cable (cat 5, not 5e) via Belkin UPS solved the issue. 

It seems to me that the new driver is more fussy (and is probably saving me from
a life of pain later), but perhaps some release notes should indicate this?

Oddly, the install worked fine (upgrade over PXE booted network)

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 10:33:55 UTC
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 2 Christopher Tubbs 2009-03-22 07:09:57 UTC
Can't believe this bug's been around for almost a year as "high" priority and severity and nobody has touched it.

I'm having the same problems. It just started for me when I rebooted with 2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2009-06-10 00:35:15 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 9 is nearing its end of life.
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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 13:58:58 UTC
Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
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