I've been running F30 on my Lenovo P72 laptop since upgrading to the
beta. I had all sorts of SELinux problems until I reset the contexts.
Now there's one last problem I haven't been able to fix and that's the
wired Ethernet port. Whenever I connect to it, the NetworkManager
applet loops and loops without ever getting a DHCP address. It worked
fine in F29, and so does the WiFi port with DHCP in F30.
systemd baffles me, and the lack of /var/log/messages doesn't give me
much to look thru. I've run 'journalctl -u NetworkManager' to see what
happens when I plug in the RJ-45 connector, then disconnect it:
May 25 02:18:33
tiger.protogeek.org NetworkManager[1217]: <info> [1558768713.6461]
device (enp0s31f6): carrier: link connected
May 25 02:18:33
tiger.protogeek.org NetworkManager[1217]: <info> [1558768713.6464]
device (enp0s31f6): state change: unavailable -> disconnected (reason
'carrier-changed', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
May 25 02:18:33
tiger.protogeek.org NetworkManager[1217]: <info> [1558768713.6478]
device (enp0s31f6): Activation: starting connection 'Ethernet'
(8b81adbf-22bf-3f18-ba5e-85f78dc4fa17)
May 25 02:18:33
tiger.protogeek.org NetworkManager[1217]: <info> [1558768713.6480]
device (enp0s31f6): state change: disconnected -> prepare (reason 'none',
sys-iface-state: 'managed')
May 25 02:18:33
tiger.protogeek.org NetworkManager[1217]: <info> [1558768713.6484]
device (enp0s31f6): state change: prepare -> config (reason 'none',
sys-iface-state: 'managed')
May 25 02:18:33
tiger.protogeek.org NetworkManager[1217]: <info> [1558768713.6845]
device (enp0s31f6): state change: config -> ip-config (reason 'none',
sys-iface-state: 'managed')
May 25 02:18:33
tiger.protogeek.org NetworkManager[1217]: <info> [1558768713.6848]
dhcp4 (enp0s31f6): activation: beginning transaction (timeout in 45 seconds)
May 25 02:18:33
tiger.protogeek.org NetworkManager[1217]: <info> [1558768713.6863]
dhcp4 (enp0s31f6): dhclient started with pid 21697
May 25 02:18:33
tiger.protogeek.org dhclient[21697]: DHCPDISCOVER on enp0s31f6 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 (xid=0x94236275)
May 25 02:18:37
tiger.protogeek.org dhclient[21697]: DHCPDISCOVER on enp0s31f6 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 (xid=0x94236275)
May 25 02:18:41
tiger.protogeek.org dhclient[21697]: DHCPDISCOVER on enp0s31f6 to
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 (xid=0x94236275)
May 25 02:18:48
tiger.protogeek.org NetworkManager[1217]: <info> [1558768728.5573]
device (enp0s31f6): state change: ip-config -> unavailable (reason
'carrier-changed', sys-iface-state: 'managed')
May 25 02:18:48
tiger.protogeek.org NetworkManager[1217]: <info> [1558768728.5740]
dhcp4 (enp0s31f6): canceled DHCP transaction, DHCP client pid 21697
May 25 02:18:48
tiger.protogeek.org NetworkManager[1217]: <info> [1558768728.5740]
dhcp4 (enp0s31f6): state changed unknown -> done
The wired Ethernet never comes up, but as soon as I unplug it the WiFi
port's DHCP connection resumes perfectly.
Can anyone suggest the next step?
--Doc Savage