SLES12 SP1 network device name not changed in recover mode

[gozora]

• rear version (/usr/sbin/rear -V): Relax-and-Recover 1.18 / Git
• OS version (cat /etc/rear/os.conf or lsb_release -a): SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
• rear configuration files (cat /etc/rear/site.conf or cat /etc/rear/local.conf): Not needed
• Brief description of the issue: udevadm trigger does not rename network devices
• Work-around, if any:
  udevadm trigger --action=add && systemctl daemon-reload

Hi guys, I was poking around a bit around issue #951, and during very early stage I've run into interesting behavior. Once recovery media boot was near to finish, 55-migrate-network-devices.sh lunch asked me to remap old network device to new one. It looks like this action finished successfully but it doesn't.

The thing is that after /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules was modified and udevadm trigger was called, my network device name was not changed. After a bit of playing around, following worked for me:

udevadm trigger --action=add
systemctl daemon-reload

I'm not sure now if this is related to SLES12 or systemd, so if you have some distro using systemd, could you check if by changing /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and calling udevadm trigger works for you?

Thanks

V.

[jsmeix]

With #959 merged
this issue should be fixed.

@gozora
many thanks for your continuous improvements!

[gozora]

You are always welcome!
@jsmeix I love "The Enterprise Way" how you closed this issue :-D
Anyhow, I can confirm same behavior on Debian with systemd so this fix should indeed help.