Hi Yamaban. Thanks for the tip, you pushed me in the right direction. I added udev rules file to initramfs: dracut -f --include /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and afterwards (reboot) it works as expected. Thanks! BR, Rafal. 2015-10-21 12:55 GMT+02:00 Yamaban <foerster@xxxxxxxx>: > On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 10:20, Rafał Radecki <radecki.rafal@...> wrote: > > Hi All :) >> >> I have three servers, all with centos 7 installed 3 days ago. I need on >> them "old" naming scheme (ethX) for network interfaces, because of that: >> >> # grep GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX /etc/sysconfig/grub >> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.lvm.lv=centos_node-XY/swap rd.lvm.lv >> =centos_node-XY/root >> rhgb quiet ipv6.disable=1 net.ifnames=0" >> >> net.ifnames=0 was added and afterwards I ran: >> >> grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg >> >> Then I created /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules with content: >> >> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", >> ATTR{address}=="00:1e:67:7f:9c:98", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", >> NAME="eth0" >> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", >> ATTR{address}=="00:1e:67:7f:9c:99", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", >> NAME="eth1" >> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", >> ATTR{address}=="00:1e:67:7f:9c:9a", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", >> NAME="eth2" >> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", >> ATTR{address}=="00:1e:67:7f:9c:9b", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", >> NAME="eth3" >> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", >> ATTR{address}=="00:1e:67:81:37:0d", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", >> NAME="eth4" >> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", >> ATTR{address}=="00:1e:67:81:37:0e", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", >> NAME="eth5" >> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", >> ATTR{address}=="90:e2:ba:46:ef:30", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", >> NAME="eth6" >> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", >> ATTR{address}=="90:e2:ba:46:ef:31", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", >> NAME="eth7" >> >> After reboot it worked fine for all 3 servers, but some time later after >> another reboot I get: >> >> # systemctl status network >> network.service - LSB: Bring up/down networking >> Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/network) >> Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2015-10-20 20:37:30 CEST; >> 13h ago >> Process: 2034 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start (code=exited, >> status=1/FAILURE) >> >> Oct 20 20:37:24 node-X systemd-sysctl[2049]: Overwriting earlier >> assignment >> of net/bridge/bridge-nf-call-ip6tables in file >> '/etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf'. >> Oct 20 20:37:25 node-X network[2034]: Bringing up loopback interface: [ >> OK ] >> Oct 20 20:37:25 node-X network[2034]: Bringing up interface eth1: ERROR >> : [/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth] Device eth1 does not seem to >> be present, delaying initialization. >> Oct 20 20:37:25 node-X network[2034]: [FAILED] >> Oct 20 20:37:27 node-X network[2034]: Bringing up interface eth6: [ OK >> ] >> Oct 20 20:37:30 node-X network[2034]: Bringing up interface eth7: [ OK >> ] >> Oct 20 20:37:30 node-X systemd[1]: network.service: control process >> exited, >> code=exited status=1 >> Oct 20 20:37:30 node-X systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Bring up/down >> networking. >> Oct 20 20:37:30 node-X systemd[1]: Unit network.service entered failed >> state. >> >> I see now that the device for which I have an entry in udev: >> >> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", >> ATTR{address}=="00:1e:67:7f:9c:99", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", >> NAME="eth1" >> >> with MAC 00:1e:67:7f:9c:99 is not eth1 as it should be but >> >> 4: eth2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000 >> link/ether 00:1e:67:7f:9c:99 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff >> >> and there is no eth1 in the system. >> >> # cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 >> TYPE=Ethernet >> BOOTPROTO=static >> DEFROUTE=no >> PEERDNS=no >> PEERROUTES=no >> IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=no >> IPV6INIT=no >> IPV6_AUTOCONF=no >> IPV6_DEFROUTE=no >> IPV6_PEERDNS=no >> IPV6_PEERROUTES=no >> IPV6_FAILURE_FATAL=no >> NAME=eth1 >> #UUID=e421e35f-3397-4a93-9449-0aa4e9ef9e1d >> DEVICE=eth1 >> ONBOOT=yes >> IPADDR=1.2.3.4 >> NETMASK=255.255.255.0 >> >> All pages which I found about "Device ethX does not seem to be present, >> delaying initialization" tell to correctly configure udev but it is >> correctly configured and it worked some time ago, only recently i started >> to get problems with this on 3 servers at once. I also noticed that on one >> of them when I saw the problem and rebooted the server eth1 was correctly >> assigned afterwards but after another reboot the message happened again. >> Quite strange to me :D >> >> Have you had similar problems on centos7? Any advice? >> >> Thanks :) >> >> BR, >> Rafal. >> > > Hmm, shoot in the Dark, IMHO, the change of the udev rules should have > been made before the grub-update. If you have initrd/initramfs, they will > have to be updated before that also. > > Else the systemd from the boot(initrd) (still on en...) has another config > that the on-system (eth.) systemd. > > I'm not on a CentOS system atm, so I can't test it, but a call to "dracut" > seems to be in order, that a call to "grub-update" again. > Please, inform yourself on dracut options before that, (man-page, also, > see kernel-update scripts). > > - Yamaban. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos