On Sunday 18 September 2005 09:20 pm, david rankin wrote:

Mates,

Strange happenings. After configuring hylafax and dialin services, I shut the machine down for a reboot. On reboot, the NIC will *not* start. The error is: Waiting on mandatory services. It fails saying no config file found. WTF?? (hylafax and ppp and mgetty should have nothing to do with my eth0 config and should not have affected anything)

After much pain, I discovery that the problem file in /etc/sysconfig/network is:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 290 2005-09-18 21:02 ifcfg-eth-id-00:04:5a:87:c8:43

*Now* this is the file that the system (presumably) has been bringing the NIC up with for a long time. A little more investigation:

nemesis:/etc/sysconfig/network # ifstatus eth0 eth0 device: Linksys NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11) eth0 configuration: eth-id-00:4c:69:6e:75:79 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ eth0 is up 2: eth0: mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000 link/ether 00:4c:69:6e:75:79 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.6.16/24 brd 192.168.6.255 scope global eth0 eth0 IP address: 192.168.6.16/24

Double WTF???

Why in the world does it appear that the system thinks my mac address on the NIC has changed?? That's impossible. But somehow the file:

ifcfg-eth-id-00:04:5a:87:c8:43

is in /etc/sysconfig/network. [No I haven't changed NICs]

The fix? I Simply:

mv ifcfg-eth-id-00:04:5a:87:c8:43 ifcfg-eth-id-00:4c:69:6e:75:79

...but... What in the world could have caused the config to get screwed up in the first place?? Yast woudn't fix it when I went in and changed fixed-dhcp to force a re-write of the config files. That's bizarre. Any ideas??

I don't know, but I have noticed lately that a lot of crap isn't getting written right by YaST. I have tried to use scpm, and that was a total disaster, as I had the same problem you did, even if I went in and modified all my network settings for the current profile YaST would not write them correctly. The only way I found to fix this was to disable scpm, completely delete all network settings and then recreate everything. it is EXTREMELY irritating to have a laptop that you have to manually change everytime you change locations. I have also noticed several questions on this list about YaST not updating files as it should. My question is do we have someone fixing this? -- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16!