[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#588477: network-bridge: start: 95 sec sleep/bridge without a default gateway

[Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen]

Package: xen-utils-common
Version: 4.0.0-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

do_ifup() in network-bridge exits badly, if the interface doesn't have a
default gateway.

Since it's wrapped in xen's locking script it causes it to be retied 100
times and sleep for 95 seconds before it continues.

In my setup this amounts to:
16 vlans without a default gateway * 95 secs / bridge = 25 minutes nap

Zzzz...

Fix from Katharina Haselhorst [1]:
> A workaround is to substitute
> [ -n "$gateway" ] && ip route add default via ${gateway}
on line 118
>
> with
> if [ -n "$gateway" ]; then
>   ip route add default via ${gateway}
> fi

[1] /etc/xen/scripts/network-bridge: line 118: sigerr: command not found
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2010-06/msg00420.html

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xen-utils-common depends on:
ii  gawk                      1:3.1.7.dfsg-5 GNU awk, a pattern scanning
and pr
ii  lsb-base                  3.2-23.1       Linux Standard Base 3.2
init scrip
ii  udev                      158-1          /dev/ and hotplug
management daemo
ii  xenstore-utils            3.4.3-1        Xenstore utilities for Xen

xen-utils-common recommends no packages.

xen-utils-common suggests no packages.

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

-- no debconf information