Bug 525434 - Fedora12 Rawhide: ncftool is failing to define an interface
Summary: Fedora12 Rawhide: ncftool is failing to define an interface
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: netcf
Version: rawhide
Hardware: x86_64
OS: All
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Assignee: David Lutterkort
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-09-24 11:50 UTC by IBM Bug Proxy
Modified: 2013-04-30 23:41 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-09-25 22:25:01 UTC
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2009-09-24 11:50 UTC, IBM Bug Proxy
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Description IBM Bug Proxy 2009-09-24 11:50:24 UTC
=Comment: #0=================================================
PAVAN NAREGUNDI <pavan.naregundi.com> - 

screenshot of error message

On Fedora12 rawhide ncftool is failing to define a new interface.

error was as shown below
===============
ncftool> define /tmp/eth.xml
error: XML invalid
error: Element interface has extra content: mac
===============

XML for new interface:

# cat eth.xml 
<interface type="ethernet" name="eth0">
  <start mode="onboot"/>
  <mac address="00:1A:64:52:30:22"/>
  <protocol family="ipv4">
    <ip address="9.126.89.111" prefix="24"/>
    <route gateway="9.126.89.1"/>
  </protocol>
</interface>

steps to reproduce:
1. take a backup of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* files
2. execute the commands as below,
# ncftool
ncftool> ifdown eth0   
ncftool> undefine eth0
ncftool> list
ncftool> define /tmp/eth.xml

Packages: netcf-0.1.0-3.fc12.x86_64

# uname -a
Linux mx3950.in.ibm.com 2.6.31-14.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Sep 15 03:48:57 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64
x86_64 GNU/Linux

Machine: x3950


Attaching the screen shot of the error
=Comment: #1=================================================
KAMALESH BABULAL <kamaleshb.com> - 
The ifcfg-eth0 is

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
BROADCAST=9.126.89.255
DNS1=9.184.192.240
GATEWAY=9.126.89.1
HWADDR=00:1A:64:52:30:22
IPADDR=9.126.89.111
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
ONBOOT=yes

After debugging it looks like

cmd_define
     |_ncf_define
           |_drv_define
                  |_void rng_validate(struct netcf *ncf, xmlDocPtr doc) {
                    xmlRelaxNGValidCtxtPtr ctxt;
                    int r;

                    ctxt = xmlRelaxNGNewValidCtxt(ncf->driver->rng);
                    xmlRelaxNGSetValidErrors(ctxt, rng_error, rng_error, ncf);
    
                    r = xmlRelaxNGValidateDoc(ctxt, doc); <-- Return value is 1

The xml validation fails, with the return code 1

Comment 1 IBM Bug Proxy 2009-09-24 11:50:32 UTC
Created attachment 362476 [details]
screenshot of error message

Comment 2 David Lutterkort 2009-09-24 18:01:13 UTC
I can't reproduce this error, neither with netcf-0.1.0 nor netcf-0.1.1.

Can you run 'xmllint -relaxng /usr/share/netcf/xml/interface.rng /tmp/eth.xml' on your machine ? Also, do you still get this error when you update to netcf-0.1.1 ?

Comment 3 IBM Bug Proxy 2009-09-25 05:50:43 UTC
------- Comment From kamaleshb.com 2009-09-25 01:47 EDT-------
netcf packages installed on the box were

# rpm -qa|grep -ia netcf
netcf-0.1.0-3.fc12.x86_64
netcf-libs-0.1.0-3.fc12.x86_64
netcf-debuginfo-0.1.1-1.fc12.x86_64

Linux mx3950.in.ibm.com 2.6.31-14.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Sep 15 03:48:57 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

result of xmllint with default interface.rng installed with netcf-0.1.0-3

# xmllint -relaxng /usr/share/netcf/xml/interface.rng /tmp/eth.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
/tmp/eth.xml:3: element mac: Relax-NG validity error : Element interface has extra content: mac
/tmp/eth.xml:1: element interface: Relax-NG validity error : Element interface failed to validate attributes
/tmp/eth.xml:3: element mac: Relax-NG validity error : Did not expect element mac there
/tmp/eth.xml fails to validate

After copying the interface.rng from netcf-0.1.1 to /usr/share/netcf/xml/ the validation was successful
# xmllint -relaxng /usr/share/netcf/xml/interface.rng /tmp/eth.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<interface type="ethernet" name="eth0">
<start mode="onboot"/>
<mac address="00:1A:64:52:30:22"/>
<protocol family="ipv4">
<ip address="9.126.89.111" prefix="24"/>
<route gateway="9.126.89.1"/>
</protocol>
</interface>
/tmp/eth.xml validates

It works fine after upgrading to the newer packages
netcf-libs-0.1.1-1.fc12.x86_64
netcf-0.1.1-1.fc12.x86_64
netcf-devel-0.1.1-1.fc12.x86_64
netcf-debuginfo-0.1.1-1.fc12.x86_64

btw, there is difference in the ifcfg-* file ncftool writes

default ifcfg-eth0 file
------------------------------------------

dumpxml of eth0
----------------------------
ncftool> dumpxml eth0
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<interface type="ethernet" name="eth0">
<start mode="onboot"/>
<mac address="00:1A:64:52:30:22"/>
<protocol family="ipv4">
<ip address="9.126.89.111" prefix="24"/>
<route gateway="9.126.89.1"/>
</protocol>
</interface>

which results in the ifcfg-eth0 file
DEVICE=eth0
HWADDR=00:1A:64:52:30:22
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
IPADDR=9.126.89.111
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=9.126.89.1

there are some configurations, which are being removed by ncftool. Is this the expected
behavior of ncftool ?

Comment 4 David Lutterkort 2009-09-25 22:25:01 UTC
Ok, I am glad you could resolve the XML schema issue.

The differences in the ifcfg-eth0 file between what you had before and what netcf generated are (1) BROADCAST, which is deprecated and (2) DNS1 which is not supported by the netcf XML (yet)

If you need support for explicitly setting nameservers, please file a feature request for netcf.


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