http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=594250 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=594250#c0 Summary: udev persistent net interface gets renamed on first boot after upgrade Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Final Platform: i686 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.2 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Update Problems AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: jimc@math.ucla.edu QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: Customer Blocker: --- Suspected packages: udev-146-3.3.1.i586 or sysconfig-0.72.6-2.5.1.i586 Starting from OpenSuSE 10.3 I upgrade to 11.2. Just before rebooting into 11.2 I inspect /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and it is the same as it was before I started, for example (excluding comments): SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:0c:6e:40:7e:25", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0" It reboots and everything is fine on most machines, but on about 10% of them eth0 does not come up; instead we get eth1. The most recent instance happened on a compute cluster node where we put some work into making them identical, and other such mishaps occurred on systems virtually identical to others that got upgraded without incident. To the above line a script appended this one: SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:0c:6e:40:7e:25", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1" On a machine with multiple NICs, if there's a problem then each NIC will get a new line and name. On the machines that didn't have a problem a line similar to the above *replaced* the original, i.e. 'ACTION=="add"' and 'ATTR{type}=="1"' are inserted, plus the 10.3 comment "converted netiface rule..." is replaced by the new style that gives the PCI bus ID. (These machines had SuSE 10.1 on them before 10.3.) The comment in 70-persistent-net.rules says it was rewritten by /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/convert_persistent_name_rules . We're trying to do as many upgrades as possible in the middle of the night, working from home, so as to work around our users, and needless to say, it's a problem when one of the machines won't come up after the upgrade. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.