F16 my network doesn't work after an update and I don't know how to fix it...

Jiri Popelka jpopelka at redhat.com
Wed Oct 26 17:26:07 UTC 2011


On 10/26/2011 06:18 PM, Michał Piotrowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Today I updated my F16 to latest version. After a while I noticed some
> problems with network, I rebooted system and after this my network on
> this box doesn't work anymore.
>
> I use NetworkManager and dhcp. During the update NetworkManager and
> NetworkManager-glib was updated from 1:0.9.1.90-3.git20110927 to
> 1:0.9.1.90-4.git20110927, dhclient, dhcp-libs and dhcp-common was
> updated from 12:4.2.2-9 to 12:4.2.3-1.
>
> I downgraded NetworkManager and dhcp packages to previous versions,
> but my network still doesn't work. I guess that one of other updates
> broke it. I see in history:
> cronie-* - unlikeley
> dracut
> freetype
> gdb
> ghostscript-fonts
> gitweb
> kernel - I tried previous version - stil no network
> libblkid
> libdrm
> libmount
> libuuid
> ntp
> ntpdate
> perl-* - many packages
> php-pear
> polkit
> sane-*
> shared-mime
> tzdata-*
> util-linux
> xen-*
>
> ifconfig doesn't show information about inet address so I guess that
> it is not obtained from dhcp. When I try to run dhclient manualy it
> can obtain data from dhcp, but it works really slow. When I strace it
> I see
> "wait4(-1, Warning: cannot bind to specific iface, falling back:
> Operation not permited"
I have no idea what could cause this but dhclient wasn't touched between 
4.2.2-9 and 4.2.3-1.

> Does anyone have any idea what should I downgrade to fix my network?
>
>



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