Package: udev
Version: 0.105-4
Followup-For: Bug #418835

This issue also manifests itself when debian is a vmware guest (and i imagine 
any other virtual
machine monitor that changes mac address upon vm copy).

What happened to me was that i noticed i was getting no network on copied 
virtual machines, and
narrowed the problem to the fact that the mac address changed and so the 
interface got some 
other name, and thus was unconfigured.

What i'm doing now is setting up a 'base' machine that skips persistent naming 
for network devices
but i would like to see a more elegant (and general) solution. Dunno how easy 
it is (if it's even 
possible in udev context) to detect that the system is in a virtual machine, 
and on those cases do 
somethings different.

Really hope this issue is taken into consideration.

Ricardo Silva

-- Package-specific info:
-- /etc/udev/rules.d/:
/etc/udev/rules.d/:
total 12
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  20 2007-03-19 20:58 020_permissions.rules -> 
../permissions.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  19 2007-03-19 21:17 025_libgphoto2.rules -> 
../libgphoto2.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  16 2007-04-09 17:06 025_libsane.rules -> 
../libsane.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  19 2007-04-09 16:58 60-libpisock.rules -> 
../libpisock9.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  80 2007-04-22 00:11 60-vboxdrv.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  13 2007-03-19 20:58 udev.rules -> ../udev.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  25 2007-03-19 20:58 z20_persistent-input.rules -> 
../persistent-input.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  19 2007-03-19 20:58 z20_persistent.rules -> 
../persistent.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 949 2007-03-19 20:58 z25_persistent-cd.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 639 2007-03-26 23:17 z25_persistent-net.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  33 2007-03-19 20:58 z45_persistent-net-generator.rules 
-> ../persistent-net-generator.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  12 2007-03-19 20:58 z50_run.rules -> ../run.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  16 2007-03-19 20:58 z55_hotplug.rules -> 
../hotplug.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  19 2007-03-19 21:17 z60_alsa-utils.rules -> 
../alsa-utils.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  15 2007-04-01 09:03 z60_hdparm.rules -> ../hdparm.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  33 2007-03-19 21:15 z60_xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules 
-> ../xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  29 2007-03-19 20:58 z75_cd-aliases-generator.rules -> 
../cd-aliases-generator.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  12 2007-03-19 21:14 z99_hal.rules -> ../hal.rules

-- /sys/:
/sys/block/hda/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda1/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda2/dev
/sys/block/hdb/dev
/sys/block/hdc/dev
/sys/block/hdc/hdc1/dev
/sys/block/hdc/hdc2/dev
/sys/block/hdc/hdc3/dev
/sys/block/hdd/dev
/sys/block/loop0/dev
/sys/block/loop1/dev
/sys/block/loop2/dev
/sys/block/loop3/dev
/sys/block/loop4/dev
/sys/block/loop5/dev
/sys/block/loop6/dev
/sys/block/loop7/dev
/sys/block/ram0/dev
/sys/block/ram10/dev
/sys/block/ram11/dev
/sys/block/ram12/dev
/sys/block/ram13/dev
/sys/block/ram14/dev
/sys/block/ram15/dev
/sys/block/ram1/dev
/sys/block/ram2/dev
/sys/block/ram3/dev
/sys/block/ram4/dev
/sys/block/ram5/dev
/sys/block/ram6/dev
/sys/block/ram7/dev
/sys/block/ram8/dev
/sys/block/ram9/dev
/sys/class/graphics/fb0/dev
/sys/class/graphics/fb1/dev
/sys/class/input/input0/event0/dev
/sys/class/input/input1/event1/dev
/sys/class/input/input2/event2/dev
/sys/class/input/input2/mouse0/dev
/sys/class/input/input2/ts0/dev
/sys/class/input/mice/dev
/sys/class/misc/agpgart/dev
/sys/class/misc/device-mapper/dev
/sys/class/misc/hpet/dev
/sys/class/misc/psaux/dev
/sys/class/misc/rtc/dev
/sys/class/misc/snapshot/dev
/sys/class/misc/vboxdrv/dev
/sys/class/ppdev/parport0/dev
/sys/class/printer/lp0/dev
/sys/class/sound/admmidi/dev
/sys/class/sound/adsp/dev
/sys/class/sound/amidi/dev
/sys/class/sound/audio/dev
/sys/class/sound/controlC0/dev
/sys/class/sound/dmmidi/dev
/sys/class/sound/dsp/dev
/sys/class/sound/hwC0D0/dev
/sys/class/sound/hwC0D2/dev
/sys/class/sound/midiC0D0/dev
/sys/class/sound/midiC0D1/dev
/sys/class/sound/midiC0D2/dev
/sys/class/sound/midi/dev
/sys/class/sound/mixer/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0c/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0p/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D1c/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D2c/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D2p/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D3p/dev
/sys/class/sound/seq/dev
/sys/class/sound/sequencer2/dev
/sys/class/sound/sequencer/dev
/sys/class/sound/timer/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev1.1/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev2.1/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev3.1/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev4.1/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev5.1/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev5.2/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/usb1/1-0:1.0/usbdev1.1_ep81/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2/usb1/usbdev1.1_ep00/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.3/usb2/2-0:1.0/usbdev2.1_ep81/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.3/usb2/usbdev2.1_ep00/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0a.0/usb3/3-0:1.0/usbdev3.1_ep81/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0a.0/usb3/usbdev3.1_ep00/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0a.1/usb4/4-0:1.0/usbdev4.1_ep81/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0a.1/usb4/usbdev4.1_ep00/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0a.2/usb5/5-0:1.0/usbdev5.1_ep81/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0a.2/usb5/5-2/5-2:1.0/usbdev5.2_ep81/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0a.2/usb5/5-2/usbdev5.2_ep00/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0a.2/usb5/usbdev5.1_ep00/dev

-- Kernel configuration:


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages udev depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.13       Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libselinux1                 1.32-3       SELinux shared libraries
ii  libvolume-id0               0.105-4      libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base                    3.1-23.1     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

udev recommends no packages.

-- debconf information excluded


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