Michael J Gruber wrote:
Todd Zullinger venit, vidit, dixit 18.03.2009 04:25:
William Case wrote:
It has been reported by someone else as a medium level bug. See:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470477
Or see the changelog of NetworkManager-0.7.0.99-3:
* Mon Mar 09 2009 Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> - 1:0.7.0.99-3
- Missing ONBOOT should actually mean ONBOOT=yes (rh #489422)
Bug #489422 is "No network after last NM update"
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/489422
The bug comments gave me the following work around:
The automatic wired network connection can be made to work by doing:
"if and only if the flag ONBOOT in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 is set to "yes""
My ifcfg-eth0 file had ONBOOT=no; I changed it to ONBOOT=yes and now my
Internet connection is made automatically on boot.
I would think that this is more than a medium level concern,
particularly for new users of Fedora 10.
Well, the levels aren't really used my many maintainers (though maybe
they are for RHEL bugs, which 470477 is...). But aside from that, the
NM release on Fedora fixes the bug that a missing ONBOOT parameter is
treated differently in NM than it was by the network service. I can't
see how having ONBOOT=no and NM not starting that device could be
construed as an NM bug though. It's perhaps a bug if some tool is
automatically writing the ONBOOT=no into the ifcfg file when it
shouldn't be.
I'm sorry I have to disagree here, for two reasons:
1) People who installed F10 from DVD/CD have ONBOOT=no in their config
because anaconda put it there. Their wired connections used to be
brought up automatically by NM after logon, and this behaviour is
*broken* now. A bugfix which breaks existing, desirable behaviour for
existing users is a regression.
Do you see ONBOOT=no as a bugfix, and if so what bug? Every install probably
should ask if a NIC is present, and set to boot, never, or per-user via NM.
2) ONBOOT really ought to be about what's happening on boot only. If
ONBOOT=no, don't bring up the interface during boot. If NM is allowed to
manage the device, NM should bring it up after logon no matter what
ONBOOT says. [1]
That makes it hard to have devices defined which aren't brought up. It's more of
an interference between anaconda, network and NM, but I don't think ignoring
ONBOOT is a great way to solve it, not breaking the setting in the first place
seems more useful.
So, if you want to change the default, go ahead and change it
consistently (anaconda+nm) for F11, but please don't break existing
default F10 installations.
Michael
[1] NM used to list these devices as "auto eth0" with editable config.
Now they are listed as "system eth0" which can't be edited. Maybe that
is the real root of the new behaviour?
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