Per Jessen wrote:
Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 2:19 AM, David C. Rankin
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.
Isn't there a problem here:
- connect to host via ssh - edit network settings - stop network
I'm not sure the rest of the sequence, i.e. 'start network' is done after you've sawed off the branch you're sat on.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
No Per, this has been no-problem-at-all in the past. That is what yast's scripts do. When you hit 'Finish' yast stops the network to adjust the settings and then restarts the network with the new settings. No problem, the ssh connection isn't even dropped. The problem with Yast now is when you hit "Finish", yast stops the network to adjust the settings, the FAILS to execute the code that is supposed to restart the network. I could understand the case where there are errors in the changes and the card "won't" come back up, but that isn't what we are talking about here. We are talking perfect configuration so that all that needs to be done is for yast to issue the 'ifup' call -- but just doesn't. I've been remote managing and configuring machines for 8 years, 5 of those with SuSE and this is a new feature with yast software management in 11.0. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org