Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 89915
config-network won't allow activation without an edit
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:53:23 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021209 Phoenix/0.5 Description of problem: I have two profiles set up for the same network card (three, really, but apparently the Common profile should be unused). When trying to activate the device, nothing happens, unless I first do a change (any change) and save the profile first. Switching between profiles does not help. Using redhat-config-network-cmd to activate the device always yields just a dump of all network parameters. This bug was present for me in the previous version as well (the one shipping with rh9), but I used neat to choose profiles and activate the network. With this version, however, neat throws an exception no matter what I do (i'm filing a separate bug on this), so this issue - which I'd just about forgotten about, suddenly became a bit more urgent. This issue was not present in rh8. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-config-network-1.2.4-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create two profiles for the same device 2. Save, reboot, log in 3. run redhat-network-control and try to activate the currently selected profile Actual Results: nothing Expected Results: activate the device Additional info:
fixed in 1.2.4-3 ftp://people.redhat.com/harald/redhat-config-network/1.2.4-RH9/
Nope, the new version doesn't fix it. Instead, now not even making a change will make the tool activate the network. I can get the network to start just fine using ifup directly, so the basic config is at least functional.
1.2.6 fixes it.
An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2003-183.html