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Bug 590525 - NetworkManager did not pick up the active link
Summary: NetworkManager did not pick up the active link
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 520146
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: anaconda
Version: 6.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Release Test Team
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-05-10 04:20 UTC by Qian Cai
Modified: 2010-05-13 14:25 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-05-13 14:25:41 UTC
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Description Qian Cai 2010-05-10 04:20:55 UTC
Description of problem:
After installed from the RHEL6 Beta 1 DVD x86_64 ISO and upgraded the system to the snapshot 1, the NetworkManager did not pick up the active link which left no network in place by default. The workaround is to manually click the active link from the GUI.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
NetworkManager-0.8.0-6.git20100408.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Comment 1 Qian Cai 2010-05-10 05:54:26 UTC
# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
# Intel Corporation 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Connection
DEVICE=eth1
HWADDR=00:1E:4F:A8:AE:EF
ONBOOT=no

# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
# Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
DEVICE=eth0
HWADDR=00:E0:4C:0B:16:0E
ONBOOT=no

Comment 2 Dan Williams 2010-05-12 18:40:49 UTC
Yeah, the issue is ONBOOT=no which is written by the installer.

This is because the install you did was not done using the network, and for security reasons networking is not started by default on reboot.  Had the install been done with the boot.iso or netinst, since network was used to install then networking would be enabled on reboot.  This is since fixed by allowing post-install configuration of network interfaces, though I don't know which bug that one is.

The Fedora counterpart is bug #498207.

Comment 3 David Cantrell 2010-05-13 14:25:41 UTC
The core problem here is being addressed by the patches for bug #520146.  Anaconda will offer users the ability to configure network devices on the target system during installation, so even in instances where you are performing a non-network installation, you can still configure network settings.

As for upgrading from beta 1 to snapshot 1, that's a non-issue.  First, we don't care about upgrades between testing releases.  Second, the behavior you are seeing is expected.  On upgrade, anaconda will honor the settings it finds in the ifcfg files on the system you are upgrading.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 520146 ***


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