Bug 435880

Summary:	ifup eth0 fails on boot
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Forgotten User E4aj6OYf6m <forgotten_E4aj6OYf6m>
Component:	Update Problems	Assignee:	Marius Tomaschewski <mt>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	chrubis, forgotten_E4aj6OYf6m, radmanic
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE 11.0
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Description Forgotten User E4aj6OYf6m 2008-10-15 23:13:51 UTC

after upgrading several systems from suse 10.x to 11.0, I had the problem that on some of them networking did not start automatically. It counted 20s, but said "network not ready", and booting continued.

It took ages to find the problem was in /etc/fstab (!):
/tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults,size=132M 0 0

If there's a line with "tmpfs", just remove it and networking starts as it should. That's a very hard and nasty bug, not easy to find. Hope you remove it for 11.1.

zmi

Comment 1 Forgotten User E4aj6OYf6m 2009-01-07 01:56:09 UTC

why is this still marked as NEW? Nobody cares about it? I've just run into the same problem on openSUSE 11.1 again, because I totally forgot about it and believed it has been taken care of.

PLEASE somebody do something - networking does not auto start when a /dev/shm is used in /etc/fstab!

Comment 2 Forgotten User E4aj6OYf6m 2009-01-08 06:50:41 UTC

Yesterday I found out more: I have a server running VMware, which had slow performance and there are some tipps saying shm should be used. As the /dev/shm lines in /etc/fstab prevent networking auto start, I inserted a mounts tmpfs on /dev/shm into /etc/init.d/boot.local. But even then networking did not start, there was an error message and /dev/shm/sysconfig got created from the network script with some files in it. Seems theres a bug somewhere inside the networking script, this has nothing to do with /etc/fstab.

Comment 3 Marius Tomaschewski 2009-01-09 13:23:49 UTC

First of all, thank you very much for finding out the reason for a bug we
was unable to reproduce since 2007!!

No, just remove the line. It is obsolete. /dev is already a tmpfs, there
is no reason for a separate /dev/shm sice udev is used (10.0?) any more.

I'm going to resolve the duplicates now.

Comment 4 Marius Tomaschewski 2009-01-09 13:24:31 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 335486 ***

Comment 5 Forgotten User E4aj6OYf6m 2009-01-19 16:06:47 UTC

*** Bug 463764 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***