Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0

[Erik Sjölund]

I really don't know to what package this bug should be addressed. Instead of network-manager it might also be:
netbase
ifupdown

I installed intrepid with preseed and pxelinux from

d-i mirror/http/hostname string ftp.sunet.se
d-i mirror/http/directory string /pub/os/Linux/distributions/ubuntu/ubuntu

today ( 22 october 2008 ).

Booting up the machine after the installation I notice that eth0 doesn't get configured:

<snip>
root@localhost:~# /etc/init.d/networking start
 * Configuring network interfaces... Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0.
</snip>

But after I edit

<snip>
root@localhost:~# diff -u /etc/network/interfaces.old /etc/network/interfaces
--- /etc/network/interfaces.old 2008-10-22 10:51:40.000000000 +0200
+++ /etc/network/interfaces 2008-10-22 10:53:28.000000000 +0200
@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@
 # The primary network interface
 auto eth0

-#iface eth0 inet dhcp
+iface eth0 inet dhcp
</snip>

 /etc/init.d/networking start

now works ( i.e. eth0 gets an IP address and I can surf the internet )

Here is my pxelinux config
<snip>
label install
  kernel /ubuntu-8.10.linux.i386
  append initrd=/ubuntu-8.10.initrd.i386.gz auto url=http://life.sbc.su.se/xml2hostconf-cgi-bin/install.cgi?hostname=hydrogen.sbc.su.se debian-installer/language=en debian-installer/country=SE console-setup/layoutcode=se localechooser/continentlist=Europe localechooser/continentlist/Europe=SE netcfg/get_hostname= netcfg/choose_interface=eth0 --
</snip>

I attach the preseed configuration file.
cheers,
Erik Sjölund

[Erik Sjölund (erik-sjolund)]

Adding an attachement with the output from the command:

egrep "eth0|NetworkManager" /var/log/syslog

[Erik Sjölund (erik-sjolund)]

This is most probably not a bug. The installation worked if I removed some additional commands I had put at the end of the preseed script ( i.e. in the preseed/late_command ).

[Erik Sjölund (erik-sjolund)]

I close this bug report. It was not a bug.
The problem was that I copied out a /etc/passwd file with false uid/gid values for the some of the daemons. These values seem to have changed lately.