Bug 506468

Summary:	sys-apps/systemd-212 hardcodes wrong path to ethtool
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Timo Rothenpieler <timo>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo systemd Team <systemd>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Timo Rothenpieler 2014-04-01 14:36:29 UTC

After updating my system to systemd 212, my system fails to initialize its network.
systemd-udevd tries to access /usr/bin/ethtool, but ethtool is installed in /usr/sbin/ethtool

Aparently it hardcodes the wrong path to ethtool, making networking completely impossible without placing a symlink.

Comment 1 Michał Górny archtester

2014-04-02 05:54:26 UTC

Could you:

  grep ethtool /lib/udev

? I can't find any specific reference to ethtool executable in systemd sources. In fact, it seems that systemd-212 reimplements its own version of ethtool.

Comment 2 Timo Rothenpieler 2014-04-02 11:09:14 UTC

None of the tools in /lib/udev use that tool.
grep says that the string is inside of the systemd-udevd and udevadm binary(and their debug files), running strings on those binarys confirms this.

Comment 3 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2014-04-03 01:14:03 UTC

% strings /bin/udevadm /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd | grep ethtool
/tmp/portage/sys-apps/systemd-212/work/systemd-212/src/udev/net/ethtool-util.c
ethtool_connect
/tmp/portage/sys-apps/systemd-212/work/systemd-212/src/udev/net/ethtool-util.c
ethtool_connect

There's no reference to /usr/sbin/ethtool there.

Comment 4 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2014-04-03 01:18:17 UTC

You will need to provide more useful info if we are to do anything here.