Pkg xen devel - Dec 2012 - Bug#695221: xcp-xapi: xe pif-reconfigure-ip doesn't work with non 255.255.255.0 subnet netmask

Package: xcp-xapi
Version: 1.3.2-13
Severity: critical

I get this bug when installing XCP and configuring the network portion of it.

When I issue the following command:
xe pif-reconfigure-ip uuid=$PIF_UUID mode=static IP=10.0.0.10
netmask=255.255.255.240 gateway=10.0.0.1 DNS=10.5.1.2,10.5.1.3

My network interface looks like this (Broken):

eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:ec:24:c7:43
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1942287 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1651769 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1808351392 (1.6 GiB)  TX bytes:1811952536 (1.6 GiB)
          Interrupt:21 Base address:0x4000

xenbr2    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:ec:24:c7:43
          inet addr:10.0.0.10  Bcast:0.0.0.0  Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1941758 errors:0 dropped:9 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1651725 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1780637266 (1.6 GiB)  TX bytes:1809322340 (1.6 GiB)

I lose total network connectivity. And this is bad since I usually configure
this remotely.

The only way I could get it working was with the following command:
xe pif-reconfigure-ip uuid=$PIF_UUID mode=static IP=10.0.0.10
netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=10.0.0.1 DNS=10.5.1.2,10.5.1.3

And my network interface looks like this (working):

eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:ec:24:c7:43
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1945714 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1651770 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1808603886 (1.6 GiB)  TX bytes:1811952596 (1.6 GiB)
          Interrupt:21 Base address:0x4000

xenbr2    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:ec:24:c7:43
          inet addr:10.0.0.10  Bcast:0.0.0.0  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1945174 errors:0 dropped:9 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1651725 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1780827498 (1.6 GiB)  TX bytes:1809322340 (1.6 GiB)

And I get network access this way.
The problem is that my network isn't configured like this and I don't
want to change it just to accomodate this setup.

I also tried with other subnetmasks such as /25 /26 /27 ... and none of them
worked except for /24.

Any help is appreciated!

Marc

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

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xcp-xapi depends on:
ii  hwdata                                         0.233-1
ii  libc6                                          2.13-37
ii  libpam0g                                       1.1.3-7.1
ii  libuuid1                                       2.20.1-5.2
ii  libvhd0                                        2.0.90-1
ii  libxen-4.1                                     4.1.3-4
ii  libxenstore3.0                                 4.1.3-4
ii  lsb-base                                       4.1+Debian8
ii  pciutils                                       1:3.1.9-5
ii  python                                         2.7.3~rc2-1
ii  python-xenapi                                  1.3.2-13
ii  stunnel4 [stunnel]                             3:4.53-1
ii  xcp-eliloader                                  0.1-4
ii  xcp-fe                                         0.5.2-3+b1
ii  xcp-networkd                                   1.3.2-13
ii  xcp-squeezed                                   1.3.2-13
ii  xcp-storage-managers                           0.1.1-3
ii  xcp-v6d                                        1.3.2-13
ii  xcp-xe                                         1.3.2-13
ii  xen-hypervisor-4.1-amd64 [xen-hypervisor-4.1]  4.1.3-4
ii  xen-utils-4.1                                  4.1.3-4
ii  zlib1g                                         1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages xcp-xapi recommends:
ii  cifs-utils           2:5.5-1
ii  xcp-guest-templates  0.1-4
ii  xcp-vncterm          0.1-2

xcp-xapi suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

control: severity -1 normal

Downgrading the severity since this not a severe issue and its easy
enough to workaround.

Best wishes,
Mike

Processing control commands:
> severity -1 normal
Bug #695221 [xcp-xapi] xcp-xapi: xe pif-reconfigure-ip doesn't work with non
255.255.255.0 subnet netmask
Severity set to 'normal' from 'critical'

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On 12/05/2012 11:38 PM, Marc Lebel wrote:
> Package: xcp-xapi
> Version: 1.3.2-13
> Severity: critical
Hi,

Thanks for this bug report. But in the future, could you please check
the definition of the bugs seriousness?

Reportbug says:
"critical: makes unrelated software on the system (or the whole system)
break, or causes serious data loss, or introduces a security hole on
systems where you install the package."

This doesn't match *at all* your bug report.
> And I get network access this way.
> The problem is that my network isn't configured like this and I
don't want to change it just to accomodate this setup.
> 
> I also tried with other subnetmasks such as /25 /26 /27 ... and none of
them worked except for /24.
> 
> Any help is appreciated!
This is likely to be a missing feature than a bug, so I'm downgrading
this to severity: wishlist.

Note that severity has very little to do with how much someone wants to
fix an issue. In this case, you'll have to ask upstream about it, and
not the package maintainer. Probably, asking in the xen-api list would
be a good idea, if you want to see progress on this.

Cheers,

Thomas

Your message dated Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:02:55 +0000
with message-id <E1USADX-0001jd-DF at franck.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#695221: fixed in xen-api 1.3.2-15
has caused the Debian Bug report #695221,
regarding xcp-xapi: xe pif-reconfigure-ip doesn't work with non
255.255.255.0 subnet netmask
to be marked as done.

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If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
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