Re: Failed to start Raise network interfaces error

[Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>]

On Tue, 12 Dec 2023, Ivan Vecera wrote:

> On 12. 12. 23 16:08, Julia Lawall wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 12 Dec 2023, Ivan Vecera wrote:
> >
> > > On 10. 12. 23 23:28, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > Starting with the commit:
> > > >
> > > > commit 9e479d64dc58f11792f638ea2e8eff3304edaabf
> > > > Author: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
> > > > Date:   Fri Oct 13 19:07:51 2023 +0200
> > > >
> > > >       i40e: Add initial devlink support
> > > >
> > > > I am not able to boot normally.  The console shows the message
> > > >
> > > > Failed to start Raise network interfaces
> > > >
> > > > Searching for this message on th internet produces some old discussions
> > > > that suggest to look at the file /etc/network/interfaces.  That file on
> > > > my
> > > > system contains:
> > > >
> > > > # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
> > > > # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
> > > >
> > > > source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*
> > > >
> > > > # The loopback network interface
> > > > auto lo
> > > > iface lo inet loopback
> > > >
> > > > auto enp24s0f0
> > > > iface enp24s0f0 inet dhcp
> > >
> > > The problem is maybe with interface name... after this commit the
> > > interface
> > > should contain port_name suffix. In your case the name should be
> > > `enp24s0f0np0`.
> > >
> > > Could you please check it?
> >
> > Thanks for the feedback.  But I'm not clear on how this would work.  Does
> > there have to be one name for kernels before this patch and another name
> > for kernels starting with this patch?  Or is the new name also acceptable
> > for older kernels?
>
> The name of a network interface is configured by udev. And it takes network
> interface attributes and compose a name for it. One of these attributes is
> phys_port_name [1] and if it is provided then its value is appended to the
> name.
>
> Prior this commit the i40e driver didn't provided this attribute so the name
> is (in your case) enp24s0f0. After this commit the value is provided so it is
> appended -> enp24s0f0np0
>
> Look at 'systemd.net-naming-scheme' man page for details how the interface
> names are composed.
>
> Thanks,
> Ivan
>
> [1] /sys/class/net/enp2s0f0np0/phys_port_name

OK, thanks.  I will see if the administrators of the cluster can help with
this.  I'll get back to you soon.

julia