Bug 674352

Summary:	selecting Xen pattern during install: broken network setup (bridge missing)
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.4	Reporter:	Olaf Hering <ohering>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Michal Filka <mfilka>
Status:	VERIFIED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	locilka, s.patrucco, yxu
Version:	RC 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE 11.4
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Found By:	Outsourced Testing	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	bug674352.tar.bz2

Description Olaf Hering 2011-02-23 16:24:22 UTC

11.4rc1 on stein-schneider.arch.suse.de

during install I selected the Xen pattern. After boot there was no bridge configured, even if the second stage mentioned something with "bridge already configured" (I dont remember the exact wording).

Later I tried to install a guest with vm-install, but br0 was not there.

Investigating this issue shows:

- 'ip a' showed only eth0 + eth1
- 'ls' in /etc/sysconfig/network showed no ifcfg-br0, only a ifcfg-eth0 (but I have no prove of that, the screen content was overwritten by vim or yast)
- using 'yast' to create a bridge shows that eth0 has STARTMODE="nfsroot", there was a popup when I tried to remove the configured interface. I created a bridge and added eth0 to it. Now there is a 'ifcfg-br0' and a 'ifcfg-' file.

I think during reboot the network may not come up properly due to the ifcfg- file.

Some logs are in bug #674328, the remaining logs will follow.

Comment 1 Olaf Hering 2011-02-23 16:27:29 UTC

Created attachment 415790 [details]
bug674352.tar.bz2

some more logs from after configuration attempts.

Comment 2 Olaf Hering 2011-03-21 12:24:36 UTC

This happens also when the installing the virtualizion tools.
After that, there is a 'ifcfg-' and a 'ifcfg-eth0' file.
Copying the ifcfg-br0 and ifcfg-eth0 files from an existing sles11sp1 install to /etc/sysconfig/network enables bridged networking.

Comment 3 sergio patrucco 2011-03-24 18:49:19 UTC

I solved the problem by setting the interface eth0 (with yast) to start at boot instead that on nfsroot. This is an option on the "General" tab in the NIC configuration. The setting in /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0 is changed accordingly by yast to STARTMODE="auto".
After that, xen-tools installation runs smoothly and the network is set up correctly, with no manual intervention.

Comment 4 Charles Arnold 2011-04-11 14:54:12 UTC

*** Bug 685097 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Martin Vidner 2011-04-12 14:08:24 UTC

Part of this is a bug which results in STARTMODE=nfsroot in error, bnc#677251.
I haven't checked the bridge problem yet.

Comment 9 Michal Filka 2014-04-22 09:18:00 UTC

This bug is pretty old, moreover similar bug  for current OS 13.2 / SLE 12 is tracked here bnc#867451

So closing as WONTFIX bcs OS 11.4 is definitely out of support.