perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Jason Zurawski <>]

Hi Szymon;

I have reported the issue in the tracker and we have had similar reports in 
the past.  I believe that the root cause of this issue lies with the RHEL 
scripts that configure the network devices - note that the pSPT scripts just 
sit on top of these and we may not have the ability to correct this problem.  

Thanks;

-jason

On Apr 2, 2014, at 9:13 AM, Szymon Trocha 
<>
 wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was installing this version from scratch using LiveCD in a virtual 
> machine environment (KVM). We observed two issues and was wondering if 
> these are bugs or something people experienced too:
> 
> 1) after first boot and running initial python script when chosen option 3 
> - networking and entering all data and then rebooting the system the 
> network configuration doesn't come up like it was not configured. When 
> inspecting it closer it seems that the configuration is somehow saved to 
> local storage and then retrieved (you can see it in 
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0) but... the ONBOOT option is set 
> to "no"! Looks like this item is not stored permanently in a correct way 
> preventing users from proper configuration. We tried to used the script 
> many times and the behaviour was the same.
> We managed to overcome this in such way:
> - after boot without bringing eth0, via console, we edited the above file 
> and set ONBOOT=yes
> - invoke the config script once again
> - in option 3 everything was already there (note that ONBOOT option is not 
> editable there) co just confirmed and saved again
> - reboot
> - it was ok :-) now so seems the new manually done config was reread from 
> /etc... and properly wrote to local store
> But I don't think this was proper behaviour - please verify
> 
> 2) Even when the network is configured option 3 in the initial script is 
> always grey (not green, not magenta)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Szymon Trocha
> 
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