[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#647202: base: udev rename eth0 and then network does not start automatically

[sergey]

Package: base
Severity: normal


Hello!
Excuse me for my bad English please :-)

Today I try to load Debian 6 from USB HDD on the other computer
(not those on what Debian was installed).

I was surprised: ethernet does not work.

# dmesg|grep eth
[    3.407882] eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xd800, 00:11:2f:ca:9a:c7, IRQ 22
[   15.310587] udev[379]: renamed network interface eth0 to eth4

It is surprise #1: I have no 5 ethernet interfaces.

$lspci|grep Eth
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

And surprise #2: network subsystem does not start after this renaming.

# ifup eth4
Ignoring unknown interface eth4=eth4.

ifup does not work with eth4, but dhclient can work:

# dhclient eth4
Reloading /etc/samba/smb.conf: smbd only.

After this manipulations, I has temporary network access
and write this bug report :-)

I suppose that nameif can be used as workaround,
but bug should be fixed.

Regards, Sergey

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash