eth0 becomes inactive after reboot in fc6?-- SOLVED!

Hongwei Li hongwei at wustl.edu
Wed Apr 11 15:52:26 UTC 2007


>>> On Wednesday 11 April 2007 16:48:53 Hongwei Li wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
...

> I just rebooted the computer again and noticed the error message on the screen
> during booting:
> Bringup interface eth0: sysfs class ... failed, ... some device has alread
> used the ip address 128.252.85.9  ...     [Fail]
>
> What does that mean? this system does not have any other network device, and
> this ip address is not used by any other system in our campus -- once I
> activate it, there is no ip address conflict at all (I leave it running
> overnight, it is still working well).
>
> Any help? Thanks!
>
> Hongwei Li
>

After updating selinux (targeted), the problem is gone. So, it was selinux issue.
Hongwei




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