Bug 889584 - network spoke fails to notice correction in manual DNS server address
Summary: network spoke fails to notice correction in manual DNS server address
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 20
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Radek Vykydal
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-12-21 19:38 UTC by Tom Lane
Modified: 2015-06-30 01:21 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: anaconda-22.17
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-06-30 01:21:52 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Tom Lane 2012-12-21 19:38:40 UTC
Description of problem:
In a network without DHCP service, I set up manual addressing correctly except I intentionally gave a wrong DNS server address, with the intention of retesting bug #870570.  I then went on to the main install menu, where installation source spoke reported failure as expected (though the network configuration spoke was displaying "Wireless connected to <my access point>").  I returned to the network spoke, where I saw the wrong DNS address displayed (as expected).  I pressed configure, corrected the info, hit save.  The DNS address in the display did not change, although the "status" was now "Connected".  I clicked configure again, verified that the DNS address was correct in that popup window, hit save again.  Still wrong address in the display.  I clicked Done, went back to the main menu, where I found that indeed #870570 is still broken because anaconda failed to retry downloading metadata.  However, when I forced it to retry using the workaround mentioned in #870570, it still failed!  This indicates that anaconda is not using the corrected DNS server address.  Returning to the network spoke page still shows the wrong address, too, so that's not just a cosmetic error as I'd hoped.

So there's probably two bugs here: one being not transferring the corrected DNS server address to all the right places, and the other being that the network status is displayed as "ok" when it's not really working.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
whatever is in F18 Final TC3 (btw, if you'd like people to tell you the anaconda version they're testing, wouldn't it be a good idea to display that more prominently?)

How reproducible:
didn't try more than once

Steps to Reproduce:
as above

Comment 1 Radek Vykydal 2013-01-02 12:12:39 UTC
To use changed configuration (new DNS address in this case), the connection has to switched off and on (as in installed system).

We might be misusing the term "Connected", it corresponds to NM state in which the device has been configured and activated.
We don't do real connectivity check (i.e. checking functionality of DNS setting).

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Comment 4 Radek Vykydal 2015-03-09 15:37:38 UTC
This should be fixed in F22.

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