What Do I Do If NIC IP Addresses Are Lost After the OS Restarts for Several Times
Symptom
NIC IP addresses are lost after the OS restarts for several times.
Cause Analysis
This problem is caused by a bug in the OS network service wicked. You can solve this problem by upgrading the SUSE patch package.
Solution
Upgrade the SUSE patch package by performing the following steps:
- Log in to https://download.suse.com/index.jsp.
The page shown in Figure 5-35 is displayed.
- Click Search Patches in the right pane. In the displayed page, select SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from the Select a Product drop-down list, 12 from the All Versions drop-down list, and x86-64 from the Any Architecture drop-down list, enter wicked in Keywords, and click Search.
- Click the wicked package of the latest version. On the displayed page, download the patch package.
Figure 5-36 shows the page for downloading the wicked package.
- Log in to the OS as the root user.
- Run the following commands in sequence to upgrade the OS. After the OS is upgraded, restart the OS to make the upgrade take effect.
rpm -Uvh libwicked-0-6-0.6.28-18.10.1.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh --nodeps wicked-service-0.6.28-18.10.1.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh --nodeps wicked-0.6.28-18.10.1.x86_64.rpm