Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Netwok Gotcha While Upgrading To openSUSE 11.2

Upgraded my machine from openSUSE 11.1 to 11.2. And bumped royally into bnc#546575. There's a typo in /etc/udev/rules/70-persistent-net.rules (an apparent holdout from openSUSE 10.x). So if your machine has a manually configured IP address, check /etc/udev/rules/70-persistent-net.rules before you update. If it contains the string ATTRS{address}, edit it so that it becomes ATTR{address}. Now the network configuration will be preserved after the upgrade.