Upgrade -> rawhide disaster

[Neal Becker]

I just tried a 2nd upgrade F8-> rawhide.

On reboot, it hung a long time on bringing up eth0, and failed.  This never
had a problem on F8.

06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B
PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)

When it went to start X, all I got was an 'X'.  And an apparantly dead
machine.

I rebooted into mode 3.  Ran top.  Nothing showed a significant load
average.  Quit top.  Now, no response from keyboard.

Rebooted into mode 1.  Looked at /var/log/messages.  Millions(?) of lines
from named.  chkconfig named off.  Rebooted again.  Now, running OK, but
still no eth0.

No wired shown in NM.  Don't know why.

[Martin Coker]

Neal Becker wrote:
> I just tried a 2nd upgrade F8-> rawhide.
>
> On reboot, it hung a long time on bringing up eth0, and failed.  This never
> had a problem on F8.
>
> 06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B
> PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
>
> When it went to start X, all I got was an 'X'.  And an apparantly dead
> machine.
>
> I rebooted into mode 3.  Ran top.  Nothing showed a significant load
> average.  Quit top.  Now, no response from keyboard.
>
> Rebooted into mode 1.  Looked at /var/log/messages.  Millions(?) of lines
> from named.  chkconfig named off.  Rebooted again.  Now, running OK, but
> still no eth0.
>
> No wired shown in NM.  Don't know why.

I am not certain but from memory I believe NM does not work with static 
ip addresses. If you have set up the ip manually at install this may be 
the problem. I would disable NM if this is the case. I had similar 
problems but once NM was disabled and i had configured eth0 manually 
everything went fine. Might be worth a try.

[Kevin Kofler]

Martin Coker <martincoker57 <at> supanet.com> writes:
> I am not certain but from memory I believe NM does not work with static 
> ip addresses.

In F9 it does. This features was recently added.

Kevin Kofler

[Jef Spaleta]

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Neal Becker  wrote:
> No wired shown in NM.  Don't know why.

check your ifcfg-eth0 file and see if NM_CONTROLLED=no or =yes
or go through the properties dialog/tab in s-c-network for the eth0
device and make sure the checkbox for NM control is checked.

NM has grown some ability to parse the ifcfg files for devices.  And
s-c-network has grown some hooks to 'hide' devices from NM by setting
a variable in the ifcfg file for each device.
Make sure you aren't running to this.
-jef

[Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak]

Neal Becker wrote:
> On reboot, it hung a long time on bringing up eth0, and failed.  This never
> had a problem on F8.

...
> No wired shown in NM.  Don't know why.

I tried upgrading to rawhide on Saturday (May 10).

My machine had a static IP, and as a result the networking was 
completely botched. Mercifully it was a local machine, not a remote one.

I had to disable NetworkManager, delete all ".bak" interfaces in 
system-config-network, and re-configure eth0.

This will be a killer bug for anyone doing remote upgrades...

- Mike

[Paul Johnson]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
 wrote:
> Neal Becker wrote:
> > On reboot, it hung a long time on bringing up eth0, and failed.  This
>
> never
> > had a problem on F8.
>
> ...
> > No wired shown in NM.  Don't know why.
>
> I tried upgrading to rawhide on Saturday (May 10).
>
> My machine had a static IP, and as a result the networking was completely
> botched. Mercifully it was a local machine, not a remote one.
>
> I had to disable NetworkManager, delete all ".bak" interfaces in
> system-config-network, and re-configure eth0.
>
> This will be a killer bug for anyone doing remote upgrades...
> Mike

I have a static IP.  In s-c-n, am I supposed to say NM controlled=yes
or NM controlled=no?

NM controlled =yes in one sense might mean "Can NM turn this on for
you given the static IP address and DNS setting"?

Saying  NM Controlled = NO may mean "can we turn on eth0 for you, ignoring NM?"

Or NM controlled = yes might mean "Should NM try to run DHCP for you
and destroy your IP settings and erase the DNS?"

See what I mean?  It is unclear what the option means.

PJ