Pkg xen devel - May 2013 - Bug#706876: xen-utils-common: network-bridge assigns addresses, breaking ifup

Package: xen-utils-common
Version: 4.1.4-3
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Executive summary: dist-upgrade - squeeze to wheezy. Rebooted machine; 
no default route on network interface eth0. Commented 'transfer_addrs' 
function in network-bridge produced a machine which worked after reboot.

We're using network-bridge as our xen networking configuration. After 
rebooting the Dom0, we had no networking via the usual eth0 bridge.Some 
digging into the problem indicated that the network-bridge script was 
assigning addresses to the newly created bridge, then calling 'ifup' on 
the same device. 'ifup' declined to operate on an interface with an 
existing address.

/etc/xen/scripts/network-bridge contains:
transfer_addrs ${netdev} ${tdev}
...
transfer_addrs ${bridge} ${pdev}
Commenting each of those lines out fixed the symptoms for me. 

Happy to provide further information if that would help.

Yours,

Frank Lee

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (700, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xen-utils-common depends on:
ii  gawk            1:4.0.1+dfsg-2.1
ii  lsb-base        4.1+Debian8
ii  python          2.7.3-4
ii  ucf             3.0025+nmu3
ii  udev            175-7.2
ii  xenstore-utils  4.1.4-3

xen-utils-common recommends no packages.

xen-utils-common suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/xendomains changed [not included]
/etc/xen/scripts/hotplugpath.sh changed [not included]
/etc/xen/scripts/network-bridge changed [not included]
/etc/xen/xend-config.sxp changed [not included]

-- no debconf information

Your message dated Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:24:42 +0000
with message-id <20140829132442.GC4202 at shell.waldi.eu.org>
and subject line unsupported configuration
has caused the Debian Bug report #706876,
regarding xen-utils-common: network-bridge assigns addresses, breaking ifup
to be marked as done.

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