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List:       suse-security
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-security] After upgrade no network and hence no security updates.
From:       "darko g" <d.gavrilovic () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-11-26 1:09:43
Message-ID: 38c146350711251709n4c7dc64cy9de792adfa2297c5 () mail ! gmail ! com
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I don't think this is a "security" related posting. But for what it's
worth, I constantly have to keep restarting rcnetwork manually to get
my nic's to wake up and grab ip's. it's been like that for ages, i am
used to it. i always keep an console open for just that.


On Nov 25, 2007 10:12 AM,  <m.van.munnen@hccnet.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recently I upgraded from Open Suse 10.2 to 10.3, hoping for faster updates
> than I had with ZMD. This became true, but I have to manually start the
> network interfaces (ifup eth0 etc) and then I have to start OpenSue
> updater by hand.
> The cause of the problem is that Suse does not start my networkinterfaces.
> As I have upgraded Suse since I started with Suse Professional 8.0 and
> never ever had such a weird problem, I was not expecting this at all.
>
> The only way to overcome this is to enable knetworkmanager. This starts my
> first networkinterface, but not the other two.
>
> When ifup (the traditional way) is specified in Yast, the network
> interfaces don't start, and hence SuseUpdater always tells me there are no
> updates available, even after enabling eth0 manually.
>
> On the same machine a fresh install of Suse 10.3 solves this problem, but
> then I miss all that I have installed over the years.
>
> Knetworkmanager is kind of a solution, but I hope someone has a better
> suggestion for me.
>
> Regards,
> Marc
>
>
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cheers,
dg

Darko Gavrilovic, CISSP
http://www.linkedin.com/in/darkog
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