Trying to add a new "at boot" network interface fails

Submitted by Locutus on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 06:32

I installed a new virtual machine with a fresh Ubuntu 10.04, one eth was active during installation.

Then I added a second eth and am trying to configure that through Webmin.

I go to Networking -> Network Configuration -> "Activated at Boot" and click "Add a new interface". I fill in the form, "eth1" and IP address "10.10.0.2", and click "Create".

Error message: "Failed to save interface : An existing Ethernet interface must be selected for this bridge to use"

But I was not trying to create a bridge...

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

Comments

Submitted by JamieCameron on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 14:28

That does look like a bug ... is this system running Webmin 1.560, or 1.570 ?

Submitted by Locutus on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 04:10

For this report it's 1.570 (freshly installed and stuff).

But I vaguely recall having had this issue a while before already, when I think 1.570 was not out, so it should have been present in earlier versions too. Not 100% sure about that though.

Submitted by JamieCameron on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 11:38

Ok, I see the bug that causes this. The work-around till the next Webmin release (1.580) is to replace the file /usr/share/webmin/net/save_bifc.cgi with the one attached to this bug report.

Submitted by Locutus on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 16:32

Thank you! I'll try it shortly and report back.

Submitted by Issues on Thu, 10/20/2011 - 16:45

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.