/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 destroyed after the most recent F8 updates

[David Chambers]

On 03/27/2008 01:03 PM Roger Heflin wrote:
> David Chambers wrote:
>> On 03/27/2008 10:32 AM Heitor Moraes wrote:
>>> Servers running Fedora 8?
>>>
>>>   
>> yes.  All of them.
>>
>> Network interfaces are e1000.
>> I had 2 of 12 machines lose their config.  One had eth0-eth3 and the 
>> other had eth0 and eth1.  It sounds suspiciously like this might be 
>> related to having multiple interfaces configured, as none of the 
>> single interface machines failed, nor did the ones where only eth0 
>> was activated at boot time.
>>
>>
>> - D
>>
>
> The e1000 driver recently split into 2 different parts (I could wrong 
> on the exact details of what happened-it looks like it split in 
> 2.6.23) one part called e1000 (pci/pci-x) and one part called e1000e 
> (pcie), and there appears to be a lot of changes being done on the 
> e1000 interface after that change, which could probably change the 
> order of the interfaces and which would confuse the new hardware 
> configuration tool and/or the current configuration and make it do bad 
> things because of the order changing around in an unexpected way.
>
>                        Roger
>
That would fit with the problem occurring after the recent kernel update 
(to 2.6.24.3-50.fc8).  Presumably if there was a change in e1000, that 
made kudzu think the hardware was different, so it created default 
config files.

I chmod -w'd my ifcfg-eth* files in any case :-)

- david