Submission type

• Bug report
• Request for enhancement (RFE)

systemd version the issue has been seen with

230

Used distribution

Arch Linux

In case of bug report: Expected behaviour you didn't see

no message is logged when I add an interface with ip link

In case of bug report: Unexpected behaviour you saw

Could not generate persistent MAC address for $name: No such file or directory logged when I add an interface (e.g. bridge, bond) with ip link. If I create them with networkd/.netdev, no such message is logged.

In case of bug report: Steps to reproduce the problem

[tom@localhost ~]$ sudo ip l add name br0 type bridge
[tom@localhost ~]$ sudo ip l add name bond1 type bond
[tom@localhost ~]$ journalctl -b -u systemd-udevd
-- Logs begin at Wed 2016-05-04 14:49:19 HKT, end at Sat 2016-05-28 15:39:18 HKT. --
May 28 15:39:13 localhost systemd-udevd[351]: Could not generate persistent MAC address for br0: No such file or directory
May 28 15:39:18 localhost systemd-udevd[358]: Could not generate persistent MAC address for bond0: No such file or directory
May 28 15:39:18 localhost systemd-udevd[357]: Could not generate persistent MAC address for bond1: No such file or directory