Re: possible grave bug in debian-installer or ifupdown?

2006-12-19 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Jim Crilly wrote: On 12/18/06 08:18:54PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Gabor Gombas: On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 09:23:13AM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: But who has created the allow-hotplug-line? I thought hotplug is dead? Doesn't matter, udev handles

Re: possible grave bug in debian-installer or ifupdown?

2006-12-19 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 06:36:49PM -0500, Jim Crilly wrote: I would agree, when I did an install of etch a few weeks ago the use of allow-hotplug caused the network to come up later in the boot process and caused problems with syslog-ng remote logging. Apparently when syslog-ng can't connect

Re: possible grave bug in debian-installer or ifupdown?

2006-12-19 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 11:47:57AM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: I have at least one server machine where allow-hotplug does not reliably bring up the interface ever. I had a bug report from a NIS user which turned out to be a result of them experiencing the same symptoms. They said they

Re: possible grave bug in debian-installer or ifupdown?

2006-12-19 Thread Bastian Venthur
Mark Brown schrieb: On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 11:47:57AM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: I have at least one server machine where allow-hotplug does not reliably bring up the interface ever. I had a bug report from a NIS user which turned out to be a result of them experiencing the same

Re: possible grave bug in debian-installer or ifupdown?

2006-12-19 Thread Jim Crilly
On 12/19/06 11:52:50AM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 06:36:49PM -0500, Jim Crilly wrote: I would agree, when I did an install of etch a few weeks ago the use of allow-hotplug caused the network to come up later in the boot process and caused problems with syslog-ng

Re: possible grave bug in debian-installer or ifupdown?

2006-12-18 Thread Bastian Venthur
Anthony Towns schrieb: I checked /etc/network/interfaces on both boxes and noticed the following line: allow-hotplug eth0 after replacing it with auto eth0 allow-hotplug interfaces will only be brought up by hotplug (or manually); you might've deinstall hotplug and replaced it

Re: possible grave bug in debian-installer or ifupdown?

2006-12-18 Thread Luca Capello
Hello! On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 07:36:01 +0100, Anthony Towns wrote: On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 09:58:48PM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: I issued: # ifup eth0 manually on both boxes but nothing happened. This probably means that ifup thought the interface was already up -- ie there was an

Re: possible grave bug in debian-installer or ifupdown?

2006-12-18 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 09:23:13AM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: But who has created the allow-hotplug-line? I thought hotplug is dead? Doesn't matter, udev handles allow-hotplug interfaces just fine, I use it on several machines. But the last time I used the Etch installer was around May...

Re: possible grave bug in debian-installer or ifupdown?

2006-12-18 Thread Florian Weimer
* Gabor Gombas: On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 09:23:13AM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: But who has created the allow-hotplug-line? I thought hotplug is dead? Doesn't matter, udev handles allow-hotplug interfaces just fine, I use it on several machines. I've seen it quite a few times that udev

Re: possible grave bug in debian-installer or ifupdown?

2006-12-18 Thread Jim Crilly
On 12/18/06 08:18:54PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Gabor Gombas: On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 09:23:13AM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: But who has created the allow-hotplug-line? I thought hotplug is dead? Doesn't matter, udev handles allow-hotplug interfaces just fine, I use it on

possible grave bug in debian-installer or ifupdown?

2006-12-17 Thread Bastian Venthur
Hi, Two or three weeks ago I installed the current latest Debian/Testing on two different servers. Last week I had to reboot both and noticed that none of them appeared back in the network again. I checked them locally and noticed that on both boxes the network interface was not brought up. I

Re: possible grave bug in debian-installer or ifupdown?

2006-12-17 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Sunday 17 December 2006 13:58, Bastian Venthur wrote: Two or three weeks ago I installed the current latest Debian/Testing on two different servers. Last week I had to reboot both and noticed that none of them appeared back in the network again. I checked them locally and noticed that on

Re: possible grave bug in debian-installer or ifupdown?

2006-12-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 09:58:48PM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: I issued: # ifup eth0 manually on both boxes but nothing happened. This probably means that ifup thought the interface was already up -- ie there was an eth0 entry in /etc/network/ifstate. This is supposed to be cleared on