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Bug 84453

Summary:	ifdown-post not called when pccard ethernet ejected (from ifdown)
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	John Heidemann <johnh>
Component:	hotplug	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	8.0	CC:	rvokal
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Description John Heidemann 2003-02-17 16:50:35 UTC

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Description of problem:
ifdown-post is never called at the end of ifdown
if retcode != 0.
This happens to me consistently when ejecting a pccard ethernet
adaptor.
As a result, jobs registered in /var/run/netreport
never get informed that the network went away.
This breaks third-party apps such as xcron
<http://www.isi.edu/~johnh/SOFTWARE/XCRON/>
that require notification.

(At some previous point ejecting a pccard did trigger netreports.
I'm not sure when: RH 7.3?  7.2?  The code in 7.3 looks the same, but 
maybe the retcode ends up being set differently.)

Presumably this is done because of ungraceful shutdown.  Perhaps
ifdown-post should try and pass the retcode down.


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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start a process that registers itself in /var/run/netreport
   on a laptop
2. physically eject the card
3. observe that no SIGIO is delivered to the process
    

Actual Results:  a SIGIO is not delivered to the process registered in
/var/run/netreport

Expected Results:  a SIGIO should have been delivred to the process

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2003-09-04 01:45:01 UTC

This is because of the switch to hotplug for handling network devices with
PCMCIA/cardbus.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2005-02-04 21:08:16 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 127283 ***

Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:51:50 UTC

Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.