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Bug 626023

Summary: anaconda fails to configure network on fixed IP networks
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Rich Johnson <richard.johnson>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 6.0CC: andriusb, chas.horvath, jparadis, robert.evans, rvykydal
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Description Flags
anaconda boot command
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Attempt to use dhclient
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NIC activation failure none

Description Rich Johnson 2010-08-21 14:24:13 UTC
Fails to configure network on fixed IP networks.  
Loader insists on invoking dhclient despite IP configuration on command line

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL6.0-20100811.2-Server-x86_64-DVD1.iso
anaconda-13.21.74-1.el6
kernel-2.6.32-63.el6
NetworkManager-0.8.1-5.el6

How reproducible:
Boot DVD with fixed IP and nfs: kickstart address  on a network w/o DHCP

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
  -" There was an error configuring your network interface"

Expected results:
  - Network configured, Installation proceeds


Additional info:
Regression from RHEL6.0-20100805-Server-x86_64-DVD1.iso
See attached screen shots

Comment 2 Rich Johnson 2010-08-21 14:33:57 UTC
Created attachment 440122 [details]
anaconda boot command

Comment 3 Rich Johnson 2010-08-21 14:39:22 UTC
Created attachment 440126 [details]
Attempt to use dhclient

Comment 4 Rich Johnson 2010-08-21 14:41:18 UTC
Created attachment 440128 [details]
NIC activation failure

Comment 5 Radek Vykydal 2010-08-23 08:27:15 UTC
This should be fixed in Snapshot #12.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 623937 ***