Description of problem: I have monitor-less NAS/router with 4 ethernet NICs. After I updated it to Fedora 19, network interfaces got names in wrong order with "funny" results. In /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules I have following: SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:30:48:da:8d:95", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0" SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:30:48:da:8d:94", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1" SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:30:4f:71:98:f2", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth2" SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:30:4f:71:99:1d", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth3" as a result, names are in ethN format, but wrong order: $ for e in eth{0..3}; do echo -n "$e: "; ifconfig $e | sed -n 's/^.ether \([^ ]*\).*$/\1/p'; done eth0: 00:30:4f:71:98:f2 eth1: 00:30:4f:71:99:1d eth2: 00:30:48:da:8d:94 eth3: 00:30:48:da:8d:95 eth0 should be eth2 eth1 should be eth3 eth2 should be eth1 eth3 should be eth0 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): systemd-204-9.fc19.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.on system with multiple NICs 2.configure persistent names 3.reboot 4.check names Actual results: wrong names Expected results: names as described in persitent names rules file Additional info: this was working in Fedora 17
$ journalctl -b | grep udev systemd-udevd[194]: error changing net interface name eth0 to eth2: File exists systemd-udevd[198]: error changing net interface name eth1 to eth3: File exists systemd-udevd[203]: error changing net interface name eth2 to eth1: File exists systemd-udevd[202]: error changing net interface name eth3 to eth0: File exists
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 989099 ***