Jarry wrote:
> On 06-Apr-13 19:10, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>
>>> STOP SPREADING THIS FUD
>>
>>> It did not happen to pretty much everybody. It happened to people who
>>> blindly updated thignsd and walked away, who did not read the news
>>> announcement, who did not read the CLEARLY WORDED wiki article at
>>> freedesktop.org or alternatively went into mod-induced panic and started
>>> making shit up in their heads.
>>
>> Steady on, old chap! By "it" I was meaning the general inconvenience
>> all round occasioned by the changes between udev-{197,200}. Not
>> everybody encountered this. For example Dale, and Walt D. didn't have
>> to do anything. But pretty much everybody else did.
>
> The problem is, news item is not correct! I followed it
> and yet finished with server having old network name (eth0).
> Problem was the point 4. in news item, which is not quite clear:
>
> -----
> 4. predictable network interface names:
> If /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-name-slot.rules is an empty file
> or a symlink to /dev/null, the new names will be disabled and
> the kernel will do all the interface naming...
> -----
>
> Well, in my case 80-net-names-slot.rules was neither empty,
> nor symlink to dev null, but FULL OF COMMENTS AND NOTING ELSE,
> which basically did the same thing as empty file: disabled
> new network names. Unfortunatelly, I found it just after
> screwed reboot. But I did everything I found in news item:
> checked and verified that file was not symlink to /dev/null
> and that it was not empty (1667 bytes does not seem to me
> to be empty file).
>
> As I wrote previously, I am pretty sure I never created this
> file manually so it must have been created by som previous
> udev-version. So I finished up with similar problem as OP:
> after rebooting I did not find interface I expected. The
> only difference is I expected already interface with new
> name, and OP is probably the old one...
You're not alone, this happened for me on all my 4 machines.
>
> So I must add my point to complaining about news item
> not beeing quite clear. And this happens quite often...
- Jörg
