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Bug 623937 - Network doesn't start on installed system
Summary: Network doesn't start on installed system
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: anaconda
Version: 6.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
urgent
high
Target Milestone: rc
: 6.0
Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Release Test Team
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 623926 623939 624992 625578 625610 625836 626023 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: 551128 582286
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-08-13 08:02 UTC by Marian Ganisin
Modified: 2018-10-27 11:57 UTC (History)
17 users (show)

Fixed In Version: anaconda-13.21.76-1
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-11-10 19:52:59 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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installation log files (Server variant) (200.00 KB, application/x-tar)
2010-08-13 08:02 UTC, Marian Ganisin 		no flags Details
installation log files (Client variant) (430.00 KB, application/x-tar)
2010-08-13 08:03 UTC, Marian Ganisin 		no flags Details
anaconda.syslog extracted from the archive (34.76 KB, text/plain)
2010-08-13 10:04 UTC, Radek Vykydal 		no flags Details
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Description Marian Ganisin 2010-08-13 08:02:44 UTC 
Created attachment 438619 [details]
installation log files (Server variant)

On installed system:

[root@system1 ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 
DEVICE="eth0"
HWADDR="52:54:00:12:34:56"
NM_CONTROLLED="yes"
ONBOOT="no"

Manual installation in virtual machine with network installation source.

I configured network just for an installation (as I did it with previous builds), that was dhcp configuration.

Not even network manager starts it automatically.

This is different behaviour in comparison to previous versions.
Comment 1 Marian Ganisin 2010-08-13 08:03:33 UTC 
Created attachment 438621 [details]
installation log files (Client variant)
Comment 2 Marian Ganisin 2010-08-13 08:04:15 UTC 
*** Bug 623926 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Radek Vykydal 2010-08-13 09:44:43 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Created an attachment (id=438621) [details]
> installation log files (Client variant)    

Marian, could you please post also /tmp/ifcfg.log grabbed from install environment before reboot? This is inconvenient, I should to send a patch for copying it to installed system as other log files.
Comment 4 Radek Vykydal 2010-08-13 10:04:10 UTC 
Created attachment 438637 [details]
anaconda.syslog extracted from the archive

It seems that NM is not loading ifcfg-rh plugin (see bug #620823), so network is enabled even for our initial ifcfg file containing ONBOOT=no, and therefore it is not enabled later which would be done by writing out ONBOOT=yes to ifcfg file.
Comment 5 Radek Vykydal 2010-08-13 10:13:21 UTC 
Dan, do you have any idea why ifcfg plugin wouldn't be loaded in recent builds? See comment #4 please.
Comment 7 Marian Ganisin 2010-08-13 13:18:45 UTC 
Interesting. Network configuration dialog is not even displayed. Network is started in advance. When installer is asking 'Choose a Language' network is already up. 

Maybe related to change introduced in Bug 617860 or something similar.
Comment 8 Dan Williams 2010-08-13 16:20:23 UTC 
Radek, does the system have /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf, and if so, what's in it?
Comment 9 Dan Williams 2010-08-13 16:34:01 UTC 
Yeah, so the issue here is that NM stopped shipping a deprecated config file (nm-system-settings.conf) in the RPM and now ships NetworkManager.conf, and I did not anticipate that the anaconda image creation code would need to be modified for this change as well.

anaconda-13.21.72/scripts/mk-images:    cp -a $IMGPATH/etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf $MBD_DIR/etc/NetworkManager
anaconda-13.21.72/scripts/upd-instroot:etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf
Comment 10 Chris Lumens 2010-08-13 17:45:37 UTC 
*** Bug 623939 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Chris Lumens 2010-08-17 17:02:18 UTC 
*** Bug 620823 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 Alexander Todorov 2010-08-19 15:43:41 UTC 
In snap #12:

# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 
DEVICE="eth0"
BOOTPROTO="dhcp"
HWADDR="00:16:36:54:B2:EA"
IPVINIT="yes"
IPV6_AUTOCONF="yes"
NM_CONTROLLED="yes"
ONBOOT="yes"


ifconfig shows interface is up. ping command works. Moving to VERIFIED.
Comment 14 David Cantrell 2010-08-19 18:29:04 UTC 
*** Bug 624992 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 15 Radek Vykydal 2010-08-20 12:41:23 UTC 
*** Bug 625610 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 16 Chris Lumens 2010-08-20 15:13:29 UTC 
*** Bug 625836 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 17 Radek Vykydal 2010-08-23 08:27:15 UTC 
*** Bug 626023 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 18 John Jarvis 2010-08-23 16:40:45 UTC 
*** Bug 625578 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 22 releng-rhel@redhat.com 2010-11-10 19:52:59 UTC 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 is now available and should resolve
the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed
with a resolution of CURRENTRELEASE. You may reopen this bug report if the
solution does not work for you.
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