[sles-beta] Changing lan adapter names, get stuck rebooting

[Michael Brookhuis]

Hi Frederic,

Will it also be possible to set ETH0 via autoyast? Most customer install server using autoyast and define their there
network.

Michael

>>> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 18:46, Frederic Crozat <fcrozat at suse.com> wrote: 
> Le mercredi 19 mars 2014 à 17:37 +0000, Joe Doupnik a écrit : 
> >      Likely probably many other people, I have no use for the current  
> > opaquely generated lan adapter names. There is no obvious tie to the  
> > hardware such as MAC address, in a readily visible fashion. Thus I used  
> > YaST (text mode) to modify the name to eth0. Yes, it can be done. The  
> > result was a conventional (at last) 70-persistent-net.rules item in  
> > /etc/udev/rules.d. My IPtables filter thanked me for that. 
> >      However, there is a dark side. Restarting the machine from power  
> > off causes the boot process to get stuck in a wait loop for wicked, 
> > saying "A start job is running for wicked managed network". 
> >      Seven and a half minutes later... the system went beyond that point  
> > and finished booting. 
> >      There is no wireless or similar arrangement here. No Network  
> > Manager. Just one Ethernet adapter in this ESXi virtual machine. 
> >  
> >      Problem two is to re-ask a question. Where are the systemd lan  
> > adapter names defined? Those ems32 style things. I have not been able to  
> > locate them. If found then perhaps reason could be brought to bear to  
> > return to usable eth0 etc. Having ifcfg-eth0 with real values would be a  
> > definite plus. The points at hand are clarity, easily located  
> > configurations, flexibility in operations, but so far in my learning  
> > process the systemd approach lacks each of these. 
>  
> Network renaming (allowing you to have eth0 instead of en0s3..) was 
> broken in Beta2, this might explains why you were stuked. 
>  
> This will be fixed in Beta3 and for Beta4, we will probably ship a 
> script to ease the creation of 70-persistent-net.rules based on MAC 
> address or bus address of the adapter. 
>  
> For the documentation on the network precitable names, you can have a 
> look at 
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterface 
> Names/ as a initial step. 
>  
> --  
> Frederic Crozat <fcrozat at suse.com> 
> SUSE 
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