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Bug 55846

Summary:	the network script fails to load network using a custom kernel
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <bmartin>
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.2	CC:	rvokal
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Description Need Real Name 2001-11-07 18:00:23 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.10 i586)

Description of problem:
Upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2 which an existing working 2.4.13 kernel. When
booting after the upgrade eth0 fails to get assigned an IP address, default
route is not set etc. have traced this down to the ifup script is using a
different command, ip instead of ifconfig, to setup the device. After the
system boots the device can be setup correctly using ifconfig with
appropriate options.

The root problem seems to be that a kernel compiled without the netlink
socket option under networking options causes the ip command  to fail.
Recompiling with the netlink socket enabled the ip command works and
network is setup at boot time. ifconfig works regardless of the netlink
option, 7.1 script was using ifconfig to setup the device.

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. configure kernel without netlink socket
2. boot new kernel
3. watch error messages regarding lo, eth0
	

Actual Results:  same as above

Expected Results:  networking should setup correctly on system boot.

Additional info:

script should have some fall back to use ifconfig if ip command fails.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-11-07 19:04:47 UTC

netlinks socket is required. See the release notes for details.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2001-11-13 20:52:30 UTC

*** Bug 56199 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2001-11-15 19:16:15 UTC

*** Bug 56293 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***