First of all: thanks to Willie W. for spotting this issue. I was banging
my head against the wall since yesterday!
------ Warning: -------
Upgrading udev to 090, don't accept the lines:
<quote>
# Module autoloading
# Autoload modules that lack aliases but have them defined in autoload
modules
SYSFS{modalias}=="?*", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/sbin/modprobe
$env{MODALIAS}"
# /etc/modprobe.conf.
SUBSYSTEM=="pnp", ENV{MODALIAS}!="?*", RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'while read id;
do /sbin/modprobe pnp:d$$id; done < /sys$devpath/id'"
# If you have problems with some pnp modules being loaded, please enter
the
# following aliases into the modprobe configuration files. These are
needed by
# udev to autoload some modules
# alias pnp:dPNP0510 irtty-sir
# alias pnp:dPNP0511 irtty-sir
# alias pnp:dPNP0700 floppy
# alias pnp:dPNP0800 pcspkr
# alias pnp:dPNP0b00 rtc
# alias pnp:dPNP0303 atkbd
# alias pnp:dPNP0f13 psmouse
# alias pnp:dPNPb02f analog
# Load firmware (not quite yet...)
# SUBSYSTEM=="firmware", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/lib/udev/firmware_helper"
</quote>
from the file /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules of udev-090
They will cause any sort of crappy behaviour!
If you accept them (as I did, alas!), the drivers of the network cards
are loaded in order of appearance during BIOS checkup routine
irrespective of any user settings, namely:
1) modules order in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.x
2) alias entry in /etc/modules.d/net (hence in /etc/modules.conf after
due modules-update).
In consequence of this snafu if you have more than one NIC (I had 4 last
night!) you are more or less sure no net services will start correctly
at following boot. I suspected an hardware failure (there was a storm
here, last night) and had any sort of doubts trying to swap back eth0
and eth1 to their original names without compiling one of the modules
into the kernel.
<rant>
All this stupid waste of time started when I decided to get rid of the
warning at bootup about '%e' being deprecated.
I wouldn't have upgraded udev!
Ok, "%e" will be set apart, but which is the new and right syntax, then?
Why a warning (a deprecation advice isn't an error) is showing up in
console as an error?
I'm really a bit disappointed about this udev issue.
IMHO silly choice, about the way of managing deprecation and about
default settings for modules automation.
</rant>
Hoping this will save someone else a bunch of nightmares...
Ciao
Francesco
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