No IP4 address after NetworkManager update

Mark Knoop mark at opus11.net
Tue Mar 10 10:13:56 UTC 2009


Yesterday's updates included:

Mar 09 09:44:45 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-glib-0.7.0.99-1.fc10.i386
Mar 09 09:44:50 Updated: 1:NetworkManager-0.7.0.99-1.fc10.i386

On booting this morning, NetworkManager fails to bring up eth0
completely - it gets an IPV6 address, but no IP4, and my router can't
see the box.

# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:40:63:DE:56:FF  
          inet6 addr: fe80::240:63ff:fede:56ff/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:988 (988.0 b)  TX bytes:468 (468.0 b)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0xa000 

Stopping NetworkManager, starting network and manually bringing up eth0
doesn't work either.

There are logged warnings from NetworkManager regarding udevadm:

Mar 10 07:17:04 localhost NetworkManager: <WARN>
udevadm_get_modem_capabilities(): could not run udevadm to get modem
capabilities for '/sys/devices/pnp0/00:09/tty/ttyS1': Failed to execute
child process "/sbin/udevadm" (Permission denied) 
Mar 10 07:17:04 localhost NetworkManager: <WARN> 
udevadm_get_modem_capabilities(): could not run udevadm to get modem 
capabilities for '/sys/devices/pnp0/00:08/tty/ttyS0': Failed to execute 
child process "/sbin/udevadm" (Permission denied)

Relevant part of /var/log/messages here: http://pastebin.com/m148fb6bf

These are also in the audit.log. Tried a boottime SELinux relabel and
switching to permissive mode, but no difference there.

Any ideas?

-- 
Mark Knoop




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