Problem configuring network

[Mika Penttilä]

Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> 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
>
>
>   
Same here.

--Mika