Bug 106040 - network down right after SUSE 10.0 installation
Summary: network down right after SUSE 10.0 installation
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 112909
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 3
Hardware: i686 All
: P5 - None : Major
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Martin Vidner
QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2005-08-21 09:05 UTC by Frank-Michael Fischer
Modified: 2005-09-05 08:37 UTC (History)
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Found By: Beta-Customer
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YaST2 logs (335.74 KB, application/x-gzip)
2005-08-21 09:07 UTC, Frank-Michael Fischer
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Description Frank-Michael Fischer 2005-08-21 09:05:59 UTC
Close to the end of SUSE 10.0 installation when network settings are shown I did
change my settings from DHCP to a static address. Then after finishing the
installation I end up (without rebooting) in my installed SUSE 10.0. At that
very point the network is not up. So the first impression I get is: network
installation went wrong.

Workaround A: I start the network manually.
Workaround B: I use YaST2 once more to set my network parameters.
Workaround C: I reboot the system.

After the workarounds the network works just fine.

FMF
Comment 1 Frank-Michael Fischer 2005-08-21 09:07:19 UTC
Created attachment 46781 [details]
YaST2 logs
Comment 2 Martin Vidner 2005-08-22 10:49:14 UTC
I have been using rcnetwork reload to apply  the network settings
after yast has changed them. In beta 2 it stopped working for the
case where the network was not up already. (This may not be exactly this bug,
but anyway.)

Christian, should I check with rcnetwork status and use rcnetwork start in that
case? I have the impression that status is quite thorough and
verbose. Does it have a lightweight variant that I could use?

Comment 3 Christian Zoz 2005-08-22 12:21:15 UTC
'rcnetwork status -o quiet' is all i have for you.

But after this final instalation dialogs, YaST script call rcnetwork stop and
then bootng continues and calls network start.
So what was the problem with the reload? 

The only problem i see is that network reload starts the network. That must not
be. Then if network reload doesn't do that any longer, your relaod will have no
effect. After Yast finishes it will stopped, started again and all is fine,
istn't it?
Comment 4 Christian Zoz 2005-08-22 14:19:06 UTC
I just detected that rcnetwork status is broken in beta2. I fixed that and made
reload skip if network was not started.
Comment 5 Martin Vidner 2005-08-22 15:00:06 UTC
OK. yast unnecessarily brought the interface down (incorrect attempt at locale
independence) and then failed to start it again because it used reload instead
of start. I have fixed both things.
Comment 6 Frank-Michael Fischer 2005-08-22 15:28:46 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> OK. yast unnecessarily brought the interface down (incorrect attempt at locale
> independence) and then failed to start it again because it used reload instead
> of start. I have fixed both things.

Fixed in which milestone?
Comment 7 Martin Vidner 2005-08-22 15:35:06 UTC
In yast2-network-2.12.12, Beta 3.
Comment 8 Frank-Michael Fischer 2005-08-22 15:45:06 UTC
Thanks for the info and the quick fix!

FMF
Comment 9 Christian Zoz 2005-08-22 18:27:49 UTC
Martin, you had nothing to change. Keep the reload. that was fine. Why dod you
try to start the network short before the boot process will do it anyway?

Or, if you are right, explain me why it was wrong?
Comment 10 Martin Vidner 2005-08-22 19:01:34 UTC
The network needs to be up because the rest of yast wants it: online update,
user database in NIS or LDAP...

The problem with reload was that it would be used to apply the network settings
in all cases, even if nothing was running before. It used to work but now it
does not. Unlike restart, reload is not specified for the case when the service
is not already running.
Comment 11 Christian Zoz 2005-08-22 19:09:58 UTC
OK, thanks. I guess i need some recreation. ;/

Service network is never up in that stage, so network start is of course right.
Comment 12 Frank-Michael Fischer 2005-08-26 06:29:16 UTC
After installing beta3 I am sorry to tell you, that this bug is still there 
and did not change at all. 
Comment 13 Christian Zoz 2005-08-26 07:57:44 UTC
Might be a duplicate of bug 112909. Do you use localtime in your hardware clock
or UTC?
Comment 14 Frank-Michael Fischer 2005-08-26 09:56:07 UTC
1. I use localtime in my HW clock 
2. I do not use DHCP, I gave a static address. 
Comment 15 Christian Zoz 2005-08-26 12:45:34 UTC
dhcp or static does not matter.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 112909 ***
Comment 16 Frank-Michael Fischer 2005-09-03 12:39:25 UTC
Just installed beta4. The bug is still there. 
Comment 17 Martin Vidner 2005-09-05 08:37:15 UTC
It is enough to reopen one bug, not all bugs that are marked as its 
duplicates. Unless you think that it is not a duplicate after all, but I 
believe it is not the case here. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 112909 ***