Bugzilla – Bug 404399
YaST Network Devices/Settings/Hostname removes primary interface (easily reproduceable)
Last modified: 2008-07-08 11:35:28 UTC
The steps to reproduce this issue are as follows: Load yast, go into Network Devices -> Network Settings -> Hostname/DNS. You don't have to change any options here, just select Finish. You'll now notice that if you run ifconfig, your primary network interface is missing. In the case on my 3 test installations (including one remote server) this means that eth0 is deactivated and removed. If you go back into Network Settings, and not do anything. You'll notice that the network interface will appear again. I have labelled this bug as Major, because in the case of the remote server, I was no longer able to access it and it required physical intervention (a server reboot) to regain access to it. On the 11.0 machine that I have Xen installed on, restarting networking by /etc/init.d/network restart (or force-reload) did not resolve the issue, however on a 11.0 installation I have within Virtualbox, it did. In all cases, rebooting resumed networking ability.
hello, could you send yast2 logs? If you are unsure follow: http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/YaST Thanks
Created attachment 225700 [details] Yast2 logs as requested Theres a lot of data there obviously. The last thing i did before tarring up the logs, was to perform the action which causes the network to drop off.
A poor workaround seems to be to rename eth0 to eth1 (or eth2 ...)
Forgot to set "comment provides needed information" for my above response.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 399645 ***