Bug 496497 - RFE: [PATCH] Be able to start netconsole without configured interface
Summary: RFE: [PATCH] Be able to start netconsole without configured interface
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: initscripts
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: F11Target
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-04-19 17:17 UTC by Lubomir Rintel
Modified: 2023-09-14 01:15 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2010-06-28 12:05:53 UTC
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add LOCALLADDR= parameter to netconsole configuration (1.20 KB, text/plain)
2009-04-19 17:17 UTC, Lubomir Rintel
no flags Details

Description Lubomir Rintel 2009-04-19 17:17:37 UTC
Created attachment 340244 [details]
add LOCALLADDR= parameter to netconsole configuration

Description of problem:

In NetworkManager-enabled installations without "network" service, where network is brought up with a Desktop session there's no way to have netconsole started at boot time since the netconsole script can't determine local address given the interface is not yet configured and gives up.

The tiny patch that's attached makes it possible to specify local IP address to use for netconsole so that netconsole will initialize and actual interface configuration can be deferred until the user logs in.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

initscripts-8.94-1.i586

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2009-04-21 22:19:05 UTC
That would still require essentially static local configuration (so that it could be recorded in the config file), would it not?

Comment 2 Lubomir Rintel 2009-04-22 06:36:07 UTC
Yes. That's the point of most of existing configuration values in the netconsole configuration file -- to configure netconsole with static configuration that works very early. For some reason the source address was the only remaining piece that could not be set there.

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 14:08:10 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

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Comment 4 Lubomir Rintel 2009-09-29 06:11:45 UTC
Ping?

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Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2010-06-28 12:05:53 UTC
Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 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.

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Comment 7 Red Hat Bugzilla 2023-09-14 01:15:59 UTC
The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 1000 days


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