Bug 33245

Summary: Something fills up /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts with ifcfg-radeth-* files.
Product: Mageia Reporter: w unruh <unruh>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Mageia tools maintainers <mageiatools>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: davidwhodgins
Version: 9   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description w unruh 2024-05-27 06:58:16 CEST 
Description of problem:Something keeps filling up /etc/sysconfig/network-script with ifcfg-radeth-s1123960 files where that number at the end seems to be random but 7 digits.
"All" seem to have contents (I have looked at three of them)
---------------------
ifcfg-radeth-s1115776:

DEVICE=radeth-s1115776
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
METRIC=10
------------------------
And all had a date of May 25 23:04
There were 30 such files today.

No idea what was doing this.  All are created at the same time (to within a minute. I cannot find anything in /var/log which occured at that time (May 25 23:05)
There seem to be a bunch of files in .gkrellme with radeth and a random number like 
/unruh/.gkrellm2/data/net/radeth-c1115002
for example, which contain content like
 cat /fastlocal/unruhhome/unruh/.gkrellm2/data/net/radeth-c1115002
2
wday mday month yday year
5 10 10 313 123
[daily]
"2023-07-14" 0 0 0
"---" 0 0 0
"---" 0 0 0
"---" 0 0 0
"---" 0 0 0
"---" 0 0 0
"---" 0 0 0
......


The content in network-scripts 
slows down the network software attempting to bring up the network

Up to date Mageia 8. This has only started happening after I tried to update to fresh install of Mageia 9 on a separate partition, and had all kind of trouble with it. I finally disconnected the disk with the Mageia 9  installation on it. This was the result in the old Mga8 installation hours after disconnecting the Mga9 disk (but it had also happend before I disconnected the disk, with many more instances in network scripts of these kinds of random files.
What is radeth? I can find no google instance of it.
Comment 1 Dave Hodgins 2024-05-27 15:37:47 CEST 
Attach the output of "lspcidrake -v" run as root.

One workaround may be to add the kernel parameter net.ifnames=0 which should
help to keep the name consistent instead of it changing based on the
connection number each time the networking starts.

Do you have an ethernet device from https://www.rad.com/Solutions/Service-Providers/Business/Carrier-Ethernet-and-L2-Business-Services ?

Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatools
CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Comment 2 w unruh 2024-05-27 18:18:05 CEST 
It is a dell xps13, andd I have not changed the wireless or wired ethernet.
I cannot see any indication of a ethernet device from rad. Also, those were 30 tries at one time (in 1 min). I looked more closely and the gkrell files were from Nov 2023, whilr the network-scripts were May 25 2024. Thid  not happen every time I reboot. The may 25 one does not seem to have occured ob a reboot at all.
I will attach a lspcidrake output.
Comment 3 w unruh 2024-05-27 18:26:33 CEST 
The attachment web page is not working
The first 2 lines are from stdout and the rest from stdout


unable to read modalias from /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:e1:00.0/modalias
Unable to read modalias from /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:e0:06.0/modalias
-------------------------------------------------------------
intel_vsec      : Intel Corporation|Tigerlake Telemetry Aggregator Driver [SIGNAL_OTHER] (vendor:8086 device:9a0d subv:1028 subd:0991) (rev: 01)
thunderbolt     : Intel Corporation|Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt 4 NHI #0 [SERIAL_USB] (vendor:8086 device:9a1b subv:1028 subd:0991) (rev: 01)
i2c_i801        : Intel Corporation|Tiger Lake-LP SMBus Controller [SERIAL_SMBUS] (vendor:8086 device:a0a3 subv:1028 subd:0991) (rev: 20)
xhci_pci        : Intel Corporation|Tiger Lake-LP USB 3.2 Gen 2x1 xHCI Host Controller [SERIAL_USB] (vendor:8086 device:a0ed subv:1028 subd:0991) (rev: 20)
unknown         : Micron Technology Inc|2300 NVMe SSD [Santana] (vendor:1344 device:5405 subv:1344 subd:0100)
Card:Intel Kernel Mode setting (Xorg modesetting): Intel Corporation|TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] [DISPLAY_VGA] (vendor:8086 device:9a49 subv:1028 subd:0991) (rev: 01)
intel_lpss_pci  : Intel Corporation|Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #5 (vendor:8086 device:a0c6 subv:1028 subd:0991) (rev: 20)
unknown         : Intel Corporation|Tiger Lake-LP Shared SRAM [MEMORY_RAM] (vendor:8086 device:a0ef subv:1028 subd:0991) (rev: 20)
vmd             : Intel Corporation|Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller [STORAGE_RAID] (vendor:8086 device:9a0b subv:1028 subd:0991)
unknown         : Intel Corporation|Tiger Lake-LP PCI Express Root Port #12 [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:8086 device:a0b3) (rev: 20)
unknown         : Intel Corporation|RST VMD Managed Controller [SYSTEM_OTHER] (vendor:8086 device:09ab)
intel_lpss_pci  : Intel Corporation|Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (vendor:8086 device:a0e8 subv:1028 subd:0991) (rev: 20)
intel_ish_ipc   : Intel Corporation|Tiger Lake-LP Integrated Sensor Hub [COMMUNICATION_SERIAL] (vendor:8086 device:a0fc subv:1028 subd:0991) (rev: 20)
igen6_edac      : Intel Corporation|11th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers [BRIDGE_HOST] (vendor:8086 device:9a14 subv:1028 subd:0991) (rev: 01)
snd_hda_intel   : Intel Corporation|Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Technology Audio Controller [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO] (vendor:8086 device:a0c8 subv:1028 subd:0991) (rev: 20)
thunderbolt     : Intel Corporation|Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt 4 NHI #1 [SERIAL_USB] (vendor:8086 device:9a1d subv:1028 subd:0991) (rev: 01)
intel_lpss_pci  : Intel Corporation|Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #4 (vendor:8086 device:a0c5 subv:1028 subd:0991) (rev: 20)
spi_intel_pci   : Intel Corporation|Tiger Lake-LP SPI Controller (vendor:8086 device:a0a4 subv:1028 subd:0991) (rev: 20)
unknown         : Intel Corporation|Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt 4 PCI Express Root Port #0 [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:8086 device:9a23 subv:0060 subd:0000) (rev: 01)
mei_me          : Intel Corporation|Tiger Lake-LP Management Engine Interface [COMMUNICATION_OTHER] (vendor:8086 device:a0e0 subv:1028 subd:0991) (rev: 20)
iwlwifi         : Intel Corporation|Wi-Fi 6 AX201 [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:8086 device:a0f0 subv:1a56 subd:1651) (rev: 20)
processor_thermal_device_pci_legacy: Intel Corporation|TigerLake-LP Dynamic Tuning Processor Participant [SIGNAL_OTHER] (vendor:8086 device:9a03 subv:1028 subd:0991) (rev: 01)
rtsx_pci        : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.|RTS5260 PCI Express Card Reader (vendor:10ec device:5260 subv:1028 subd:0991) (rev: 01)
unknown         : Intel Corporation|Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt 4 PCI Express Root Port #2 [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:8086 device:9a27 subv:0060 subd:0000) (rev: 01)
unknown         : Intel Corporation|11th Gen Core Processor PCIe Controller [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:8086 device:9a09) (rev: 01)
unknown         : Intel Corporation|Tiger Lake-LP LPC Controller [BRIDGE_ISA] (vendor:8086 device:a082 subv:1028 subd:0991) (rev: 20)
intel_lpss_pci  : Intel Corporation|Tiger Lake-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #1 (vendor:8086 device:a0e9 subv:1028 subd:0991) (rev: 20)
xhci_pci        : Intel Corporation|Tiger Lake-LP Thunderbolt 4 USB Controller [SERIAL_USB] (vendor:8086 device:9a13 subv:1028 subd:0991) (rev: 01)
unknown         : Intel Corporation|GNA Scoring Accelerator module [SYSTEM_OTHER] (vendor:8086 device:9a11 subv:1028 subd:0991) (rev: 01)
hub             : Linux 6.6.28-desktop-1.mga9 xhci-hcd|xHCI Host Controller [Hub|Unused|Full speed (or root) hub] (vendor:1d6b device:0002)
hub             : Linux 6.6.28-desktop-1.mga9 xhci-hcd|xHCI Host Controller [Hub|Unused|Full speed (or root) hub] (vendor:1d6b device:0003)
hub             : Linux 6.6.28-desktop-1.mga9 xhci-hcd|xHCI Host Controller [Hub|Unused|Full speed (or root) hub] (vendor:1d6b device:0002)
unknown         : Goodix|FingerPrint (vendor:27c6 device:533c)
uvcvideo        : Integrated_Webcam_HD|Integrated_Webcam_HD [Video|Video Control] (vendor:0bda device:5517)
btusb           : Intel Corp.|AX201 Bluetooth [Wireless|Radio Frequency|Bluetooth] (vendor:8087 device:0026)
hub             : Linux 6.6.28-desktop-1.mga9 xhci-hcd|xHCI Host Controller [Hub|Unused|Full speed (or root) hub] (vendor:1d6b device:0003)
hid_sensor_hub  : hid-ishtp 8087:0AC2
hid_multitouch  : DLL0945:00 06CB:CDE6
wacom           : WCOM4100:00 056A:4940
Comment 4 Dave Hodgins 2024-05-27 21:56:58 CEST 
The output of "lsusb|grep -v hub" may help too.
Comment 5 Dave Hodgins 2024-05-27 22:08:06 CEST 
"ls -l /sys/class/net" too.
Comment 6 w unruh 2024-05-27 22:26:53 CEST 
lsusb|grep -v hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 045e:0040 Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse Optical
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:0892 Logitech, Inc. OrbiCam
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 10c4:ea60 Silicon Labs CP210x UART Bridge
Comment 7 w unruh 2024-05-27 22:36:26 CEST 
ls -la /sys/class/net
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 0 May 26 01:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 65 root root 0 May 26 01:41 ..
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 0 May 26 01:41 enp4s0 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/0000:04:00.0/net/enp4s0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 0 May 26 01:41 lo -> ../../devices/virtual/net/lo
Comment 8 Dave Hodgins 2024-05-27 23:15:53 CEST 
The ifcfg files are created by
/usr/lib/udev/net_create_ifcfg

Looking at that file, adding a line with
AUTOMATIC_IFCFG=no
to /etc/sysconfig/network
should stop it from generating new ifcfg files. The case of the text is
important.

Please try that as a workaround. You'll just have to remember to temporarily
remove the line if the ethernet card is moved or a different one is added
elsewhere.

If that doesn't work, reboot, then add the output of
"journalctl -b --no-h|grep udev", so we can try to figure out what is
triggering it.