Bug#700292: netcfg/choose_interface=auto fails to select eth1 when eth0 has no link

2016-08-30 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 31/08/16 at 13:15 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, 2016-08-31 at 07:10 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > Well, FTR it's exactly the kind of hardware I was using yesterday > > (with the current jessie installer) > > Did you try with the cable plugged into only eth1?  Yes. > If so, I guess

Bug#700292: netcfg/choose_interface=auto fails to select eth1 when eth0 has no link

2016-08-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 2016-08-31 at 07:10 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Well, FTR it's exactly the kind of hardware I was using yesterday > (with the current jessie installer) Did you try with the cable plugged into only eth1?  If so, I guess this is fixed. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Bug#700292: netcfg/choose_interface=auto fails to select eth1 when eth0 has no link

2016-08-30 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 31/08/16 at 11:26 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, 2016-08-30 at 17:48 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > What you put in the preseeding file has no effect for network > > detection (at least in the case where this file is fetched over the > > network). > > The preseeding I was talking about

Bug#700292: netcfg/choose_interface=auto fails to select eth1 when eth0 has no link

2016-08-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, 2016-08-30 at 17:48 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > What you put in the preseeding file has no effect for network > detection (at least in the case where this file is fetched over the > network). The preseeding I was talking about was added to the ISO IIRC. > So it's possible that this

Bug#700292: netcfg/choose_interface=auto fails to select eth1 when eth0 has no link

2016-08-30 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 24/04/15 at 09:38 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 18/02/13 at 07:28 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Sun, 2013-02-17 at 23:24 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > > > Now I'm not sure why we're checking for a link in netcfg_autoconfig > > > again without error handling, but why does it try the

Bug#700292: netcfg/choose_interface=auto fails to select eth1 when eth0 has no link

2015-04-24 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 18/02/13 at 07:28 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Sun, 2013-02-17 at 23:24 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: Now I'm not sure why we're checking for a link in netcfg_autoconfig again without error handling, but why does it try the wrong ifname in the first place? In the auto selection process we

Bug#700292: netcfg/choose_interface=auto fails to select eth1 when eth0 has no link

2013-02-17 Thread Philipp Kern
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 04:44:50PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: This is because the autoconfig code doesn't check the result of the link detection code and return that to upper layers (see below). I think I'm missing something. Why is the autoconfig code at fault? We'll start in GET_INTERFACE,

Bug#700292: netcfg/choose_interface=auto fails to select eth1 when eth0 has no link

2013-02-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2013-02-17 at 23:24 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: Now I'm not sure why we're checking for a link in netcfg_autoconfig again without error handling, but why does it try the wrong ifname in the first place? In the auto selection process we should've picked one earlier that had a link

Bug#700292: netcfg/choose_interface=auto fails to select eth1 when eth0 has no link

2013-02-11 Thread Paul Wise
Package: netcfg Severity: normal Tags: d-i netcfg/choose_interface=auto in preseeding or on the installer kernel command-line fails to choose the right interface when the first interface has no link. This is annoying for automated installs from CD. For netboot installs, it is possible to use the