Bug#548369: eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

[Hodge, Robert L]

Frans,
I changed '#!/bin/sh' to '#!/bin/bash' in /sbin/hwup and /sbin/hwdown on the backup disk of the squeeze ugrade and booted from it. It fixes the issue. I did not change the default shell from bash to dash during the upgrade.

Thanks,
rlh

-----Original Message-----
From: Frans Pop [mailto:elendil@...]
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 4:16 PM
To: Hodge, Robert L; 548369@...
Cc: Bastian Blank
Subject: Re: Bug#548369: eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

reassign 548369 upgrade-reports
thanks

Please keep me in CC when replying!

On Friday 25 September 2009, Hodge, Robert L wrote:

> Description: eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
>  Upgraded lenny on s390 to squeeze on s390, and upon rebooted received
>  the following messages.
>
> Setting up networking....
> Configuring network interfaces...
> SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
> SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device
> eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> Failed to bring up eth0.
>
>  A backup was made of the squeeze install, and lenny was restored to the
> disk.

I'm reassigning this report to upgrade-reports for now as this is certainly
not an installation issue.

First thing that needs to be done here is to find out the actual issue.
Possible candidates are the kernel, udev or sysconfig-hardware. I suspect
the last.

Robert: please see the following bug report [1] and check if changing
'#!/bin/sh' to '#!/bin/bash' in /sbin/hwup and /sbin/hwdown fixes the
issue. You'll probably have to reboot after making the change for it to
take effect.
Did you change the default shell from bash to dash during the upgrade?

Bastian: any chance of an upload of sysconfig-hardware to fix this? I
reported the issue 2 months ago...

Cheers,
FJP

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/538354

(Thanks to tbm for bouncing the BR to me.)





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[Frans Pop-3]

reassign 548369 sysconfig-hardware
forcemerge 538354 548369
thanks

On Saturday 26 September 2009, you wrote:
> I changed '#!/bin/sh' to '#!/bin/bash' in /sbin/hwup and /sbin/hwdown on
> the backup disk of the squeeze ugrade and booted from it. It fixes the
> issue.

OK. I thought it probably would.
Merging your report with my own and let's hope sysconfig-hardware will get
fixed soon.

> I did not change the default shell from bash to dash during the
> upgrade.

The default shell *must* have changed though as otherwise you'd already
have had the issue before the upgrade. And the default is not supposed to
change during an upgrade without a debconf prompt (unless you're using
non-standard settings for debconf, such as using the non-interactive
frontend).

I'll leave it to you whether you want to file a separate bug report
(against dash) for that.

Cheers,
FJP



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Processing commands for control@...:

> reassign 548369 sysconfig-hardware
Bug #548369 [upgrade-reports] eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Bug reassigned from package 'upgrade-reports' to 'sysconfig-hardware'.
> forcemerge 538354 548369
Bug#538354: sysconfig-hardware: Fails to activate extra dasd when system shell is dash
Bug#548369: eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Forcibly Merged 538354 548369.

> thanks
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