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Bug 79171 - Boot time network profiles not working
Summary: Boot time network profiles not working
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: initscripts
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Brock Organ
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 82453 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-12-06 18:18 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:32 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2002-12-06 18:20:20 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2002-12-06 18:18:12 UTC 
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003

Description of problem:
The word cmdline on line 711 should be a variable and is not used as so. 
Therefore, network profiles do not load.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Set up a network profile.
2.Change bootloader to pass cmdline netprofile=profilename.
3.Reboot and profile doesn't load.
	

Actual Results:  Profile didn't load.

Expected Results:  Network profile loaded and set my interface addresses correctly.

Additional info:

Just a typo.
Comment 1 Need Real Name 2002-12-06 18:20:08 UTC 
Line 771 on rc.sysinit that is.  Heh.
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2002-12-09 17:37:18 UTC 
Fixed in cvs, will be in next build.
Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2003-01-23 22:55:12 UTC 
*** Bug 82453 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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