/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 destroyed after the most recent F8 updates
David Chambers
davidc at ccmi.salk.edu
Thu Mar 27 20:21:13 UTC 2008
On 03/27/2008 01:03 PM Roger Heflin wrote:
> David Chambers wrote:
>> On 03/27/2008 10:32 AM Heitor Moraes wrote:
>>> Servers running Fedora 8?
>>>
>>>
>> yes. All of them.
>>
>> Network interfaces are e1000.
>> I had 2 of 12 machines lose their config. One had eth0-eth3 and the
>> other had eth0 and eth1. It sounds suspiciously like this might be
>> related to having multiple interfaces configured, as none of the
>> single interface machines failed, nor did the ones where only eth0
>> was activated at boot time.
>>
>>
>> - D
>>
>
> The e1000 driver recently split into 2 different parts (I could wrong
> on the exact details of what happened-it looks like it split in
> 2.6.23) one part called e1000 (pci/pci-x) and one part called e1000e
> (pcie), and there appears to be a lot of changes being done on the
> e1000 interface after that change, which could probably change the
> order of the interfaces and which would confuse the new hardware
> configuration tool and/or the current configuration and make it do bad
> things because of the order changing around in an unexpected way.
>
> Roger
>
That would fit with the problem occurring after the recent kernel update
(to 2.6.24.3-50.fc8). Presumably if there was a change in e1000, that
made kudzu think the hardware was different, so it created default
config files.
I chmod -w'd my ifcfg-eth* files in any case :-)
- david
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