Problem configuring network
Gerhard Magnus
magnus at agora.rdrop.com
Wed Apr 11 14:43:53 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 06:47 +0300, Mika Penttilä wrote:
> Phil Meyer wrote:
> > Knute Johnson wrote:
> >> I've got an FC6 box that I'm having some trouble getting the network
> >> configured correctly. I keep getting the error below when eth0 is
> >> started. This happens on reboot or if I attempt to restart the
> >> network. Networking works but I keep getting the error message.
> >> Any ideas where I've gone wrong?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> knute...
> >>
> >> [root at knute knute]# /sbin/service network restart
> >> Shutting down interface eth0: [ OK ]
> >> Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ]
> >> SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device
> >> Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
> >> Bringing up interface eth0: sysfs class device: Permission denied
> >> Error, some other host already uses address 192.168.3.5.
> >> [FAILED]
> >
> > OK, since you and magnus are having the same issue, and at least one
> > other has confirmed a similar or same condition, we have enough to
> > drop the problem out of the anomaly real, and into something related
> > to a recent update (or something similar).
> >
> > I have another piece of info that may or not be related:
> >
> > The 2.6.20 kernels will NOT enable the ethernet driver for anaconda
> > properly.
> >
> > I use:
> >
> > linux text ks=http://server/ks/developer.ks
> >
> > to begin an install. On three different systems now (all attempts I
> > have tried) this fails with interface failures. F3 shows DHCP READ
> > fails because network is DOWN, yet F4 shows the network up normally.
> >
> > I roll my own initrd.img with the current kernels using pungi, and
> > this behavior began with 2.6.20 kernels.
> >
> > The problems together indicate a larger issue with the basic ethernet
> > drivers in the 2.6.20 kernels.
> >
> > So, the acid test is for you to boot an older kernel, check the
> > problem, boot the latest kernel, check the problem.
> >
> > Is it a kernel (newer basic ethernet driver) problem?
> >
> > Can you try a pre 2.6.20 kernel?
> >
> > If it works, then we need to check bugzilla ...
> >
> I can confirm having a similar problem with fc6 latest updates on
> x86_64. I'm pretty sure it's a selinux problem and has nothing to do
> with duplicate addresses, /var/log/messages gets these :
>
> udit(1176236857.784:7): avc: denied { search } for pid=2155
> comm="arping" name="/" dev=sysfs ino=1
> scontext=system_u:system_r:netutils_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:sysfs_t:s0 tclass=dir
>
> and the ifup script thinks it's because of a duplicate address while
> selinux is denying arping.
The latest round of updates cleared up this problem for me. --Jerry
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