On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 7:21 PM, James <jamesze...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, just following up to see if there were any ideas on what may be > causing this. > > Any thoughts appreciated. > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:17 PM, James <jamesze...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I'm attempting to >> change the interface name (eth0 -> wired) on one of my servers. >> >> Here's the output from the journal: >> >> ~# journalctl --no-pager | grep -i wired >> Sep 23 17:11:15 vivid systemd-udevd[399]: error changing net interface >> name 'eth0' to 'wired0': Device or resource busy >> Sep 23 17:11:15 vivid systemd-udevd[399]: could not rename interface >> '2' from 'eth0' to 'wired0': Device or resource busy >> Sep 23 17:11:17 vivid sh[566]: Unknown interface wired0 >> Sep 23 17:11:17 vivid systemd[1]: Started ifup for wired0. >> Sep 23 17:11:17 vivid systemd[1]: Starting ifup for wired0... >> >> Here's what the .link contains: >> >> # cat 10-ethernet.link >> [Match] >> MACAddress=fa:16:3e:31:7a:4b >> [Link] >> Name=wired0 >> MACAddress=fa:15:33:55:33:44 >> >> And the .network: >> >> # cat 20-ethernet.network >> [Match] >> Name=wired* >> [Network] >> DNS=8.8.8.8 >> DNS=8.8.4.4 >> [Address] >> Address=10.1.1.190/24 >> [Route] >> Destination=0.0.0.0/0 >> Gateway=10.1.1.1 >> >> The MAC address of the interface changes properly, so I know that the >> unit is at least being read and parsed. >> >> As an aside, this is happening on Ubuntu 15.04. I've disabled >> NetworkManager and am relying, obviously, on systemd-networkd and >> systemd-resolved. I've also temporarily disabled dhcpd thinking that >> may have had something to do with the interface being busy, to no >> avail. >> >> Any thoughts on why the interface is busy resulting in the name change >> failing?
Most likely you have some other daemon running, or a script executed by udev, or the interface is found by some init script, something that brings the interface up before the attempt to rename it by udev/networkd. Kay _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
