Re: networking probs in next-20081203

["Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>]

Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 05:18:34PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> x86_64, CONFIG_E1000E=y.
>>
>> Current Linus mainline is OK, but with linux-next I'm seeing the following:
>>
>> - During boot I see a "cannot open /proc/net/dev" fly past.  But when
>>   it gets to the login prompt, I can read /proc/net/dev.
> 
> I _suspect_ it might me something with /proc/net changes (again) and initcall
> ordering.
> 
> Andrew, as rejectless quick test, you can do
> 
> 	git checkout -f 26b0d981e7dd1d5b4852ed5719bd1388c7994163	# sic
> 
> which is the last tree merged before proc tree in that next tree.
> 
>> - Networking won't come up.  `ifup eth0' says "determining ip address
>>   ...  failed", and the failure is immediate.
>>
>> - eth0 appears in the ifconfig oputput as normal - it just won't come up.
>>
>> - nothing interesting in dmesg
>>
>>
>> Here's the dmesg: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/dmesg-dead-net.txt
>> (that dmesg was generated with E1000=y, E1000E=y, but that doesn't seem
>> to matter)
>>
>> The .config: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-dead-net.txt

perhaps this line has something to do with it?

[   50.539326] type=1400 audit(1228348149.537:4): avc:  denied  { mount } for
pid=11636 comm="ifconfig" name="/" dev=proc/net ino=4026531842
scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0
tclass=filesystem

maybe try disabling selinux?

Auke

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