On Wednesday 28 August 2019 11:38:14 David Wright wrote: > On Wed 28 Aug 2019 at 03:07:24 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 August 2019 23:54:02 David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 27 Aug 2019 at 19:51:21 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 27 August 2019 17:44:18 David Wright wrote: > > > > > On Tue 27 Aug 2019 at 21:39:52 (+0100), Brian wrote: > > > > > > On Tue 27 Aug 2019 at 15:50:31 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > > > > On Tuesday 27 August 2019 14:58:37 Tyler D wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 2:45 PM Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I've just swapped machines because that failed one got > > > > > > > > > nailed by a lightning surge while I was in the shop > > > > > > > > > with a heart attack. 3 different psu's didn't restore > > > > > > > > > the green led in a decade old dell, so I swapped the > > > > > > > > > whole box except for the HD. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > But udevs UN-persistent rules have apparently run out > > > > > > > > > of eth0 names, renaming the only ethernet port it has > > > > > > > > > to eth2. So I either rename it to eth2 in /e/n/i, or > > > > > > > > > kill the rule that advances the name. Since those old > > > > > > > > > dells only come with one port, I'd much druther have a > > > > > > > > > fixed name. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > What, in wheezy, /lib/udev/rules.d rule do I nuke so > > > > > > > > > eth0 remains eth0 regardless of which box I put that > > > > > > > > > drive in? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I usually just blow away > > > > > > > > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules to solve stuff > > > > > > > > like that... I'm not absolutely sure that's the same in > > > > > > > > Wheezy though. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'll do it, but the date on it is today, so I suspect > > > > > > > something in /lib/udev/rules.d is behind the re-write. > > > > > > > And thats probably where to apply the nuclear option. > > > > > > > They really should have renamed it 70-un-persistent-net. > > > > > > > T'would have been a much more accurate description. > > > > > > > > > > > > In spite of posts about it in -user, you are just about > > > > > > clueless about status of > > > > > > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, aren't you? > > > > > > > > > > > > As for wheezy - deary me; we are living in the past. > > > > > > > > > > Evidently, Gene never got round to writing the script > > > > > mentioned in: > > > > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/05/msg00707.html > > > > > which would have cleaned > > > > > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules already. > > > > > > > > one must have a working network before any such script can be > > > > posted. next fictitious request? > > > > > > I didn't ask you to post a script. Three years ago I suggested > > > you write one that would erase the contents of > > > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and you replied: > > > > > > "Now thats a jolly good idea, so next time it has to start > > > from scratch." > > > > Its still a good idea, but I have a now faint memory of not doing it > > because I couldn't figure out where in the init sequence to put it. > > Maybe incorporate it as the first line of the if-up? > > Possibly. But it does mean you could never check whether udev did its > job correctly because you'd only ever see an empty/absent file. > Perhaps better to install it as a /etc/init.d/foo script that's > run by, say, a K09foo link in /etc/rc0.d/ (I take it you're using > sysvinit in wheezy. I only have a fossil squeeze system to look at.) > It appears that K08ifupdown would have run by then, assuming these > K numbers are venerable. > I think they are, or at least were. But someone claimed it worked for wheezy so I used the kernel "net.ifnames=0", which worked well while I played with cables trying to determine which of the interface cards, or all 3, that I needed to order. 3.3 volt fpga's are a bit fragile when mother nature is playing with fireworks. :(
Thanks David. 1st of 2 instant Problems solved. Money will fix the other. > > > I guess you've forgotten that you had exactly the same problem > > > with the persistence of /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules > > > three years ago. If you'd implemented the script, you wouldn't > > > have had the same problem today. > > Cheers, > David. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
