Description of problem:
Network connection is not enabled automatically with DHCP or static IP

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.0.0-14.fc9

How reproducible:
Upgrade from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 and boot PC. 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot PC with Fedora 9 rawhide. PC gets an ip, network mask and default ip
gateway address. However, the network does not work.
2. Restart network services as root: '/etc/init.d/network restart'
information for eth0...dhclient(3433) is already running - exiting.

This version of ISC DHCP is based on the release available
on ftp.isc.org.  Features 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 Red Hat Bugzilla site:
    http://bugzilla.redhat.com

exiting.
 failed.
                                                           [FAILED]
3. Set ip as static manually: as root: '/etc/init.d/network stop'
'system-config-network
DHCP [*] -> DHCP [ ] and manual configuration

4. Restart network service as root:  '/etc/init.d/network start'
Bringing up loopback interface:                            [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface eth0:  RTNETLINK answers: File exists
Error adding address XXX.XXX.XX.XX for eth0.
RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
                                                           [  OK  ]
were XXX.XXX.XX.XX is actual ip address.
  
Actual results:
After configuring the ip address manually, the ssh does not as well mounting of
samba partitions is not possible.

Expected results:
Automatically configured working network services, ssh connections should be
working as well as mounting of samba disk partitions should be possible.

Additional info: