Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2114 mails)

["Andrew Joakimsen" <joakimsen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 2:19 AM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Listmates,
>
>        I ran into an annoying bug with Yast -> Network Device _not_ 
> restarting eth0
> after making changes to a network card. This was incredibly frustrating to 
> have
> to run back across town to the office after the ssh connection went dead. Yast
> correctly created /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth0, but then for some reason just did
> not restart the device. I get to the office and loopback is the only device
> shown with ifconfig. A simply ifup eth0 started the card just fine.

I don't think it is specific to 64-bit systems, but I have noticed the
same behavior when changing the hostname via ssh -- it never comes
back online by itself.

I am going to test this on the SLED beta and report a bug irregardless
of what I find because this should be fixed in 11.0.
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