on UEC node install, bridge device is not coming up on boot

[Daniel Nurmi]

When installing a UEC node (from server iso 09272009.1), I'm finding that the bridge device that is defined in /etc/network/interfaces never comes up on machine boot. contents of /etc/network/interfaces looks correct:

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# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet manual

auto br0
iface br0 inet dhcp
 bridge_ports eth0
 bridge_fd 9
 bridge_hello 2
 bridge_maxage 12
 bridge_stp off
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My ethernet interface is:

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5722 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express

After the machine boots, I can bring up the bridge successfully with:

sudo ifup br0

Could this be an interaction with upstart that is causing the bridge to never be started? Any suggestions on how to debug this further would be appreciated!

[Thierry Carrez (ttx)]

Dan -
The bridge has never failed to come up on my setup.
Could you abstract the issue from eucalyptus Node install ? i.e. take the same CD on the same machine, perform a basic regular server install, push the bridge configuration in /etc/network/interfaces, reboot.
If it does come up in that case then it might be node-install related, but if it still doesn't we'll know this is external to Eucalyptus and a more generic bug.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

I'm closing this bug for now, as I have never seen this issue either. Please reopen, Dan, if you experience it in your environment.

Thanks,
:-Dustin