Re: 2.6.18-rc1-mm1: /sys/class/net/ethN becoming symlink befuddled /sbin/ifup

Mike Galbraith
2006-07-09T18:55:21Z

On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 20:22 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> As $subject says, up-to-date SuSE 10.0 /sbin/ifup became confused...
>
> -[pid 8191] lstat64("/sys/class/net/eth1", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
> -[pid 8191] lstat64("/sys/block/eth1", 0xafec0f9c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

Slight correction: it's /sbin/getcfg that did the above, resulting in
ipup failing.