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OCI: ifcfg-ensN File is Empty After the Reboot with Error “Device name does not seem to be present”

APPLIES TO:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later

Linux x86-64


SYMPTOMS:

Oracle Linux Instance network configuration file “/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ensN” is empty after the reboot and it contents are not generate automatically by cloud-init.

Jan 26 07:57:09 localhost network: Bringing up interface ens3:  ERROR  : [/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth] Device name does not seem to be present.
Jan 26 07:57:09 localhost /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth: Device name does not seem to be present.
Jan 26 07:57:09 localhost network: [FAILED]
Jan 26 07:57:09 localhost systemd: network.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Jan 26 07:57:09 localhost systemd: Failed to start LSB: Bring up/down networking.
Jan 26 07:57:09 localhost systemd: Unit network.service entered failed state.
Jan 26 07:57:09 localhost systemd: network.service failed.
Jan 26 07:57:09 localhost systemd: Starting Initial cloud-init job (metadata service crawler)...
..
Jan 26 07:57:09 localhost cloud-init: ci-info: | Device |  Up  |  Address  |    Mask   | Scope |     Hw-Address    |
Jan 26 07:57:09 localhost cloud-init: ci-info: +--------+------+-----------+-----------+-------+-------------------+
Jan 26 07:57:09 localhost cloud-init: ci-info: |  ens3  | True |     .     |     .     |   .   | 02:00:1              < ---7:00:ae:18 |
Jan 26 07:57:09 localhost cloud-init: ci-info: |  ens4  | True |     .     |     .     |   .   | 02:00:17:00:e2:59 |
Jan 26 07:57:09 localhost cloud-init: ci-info: |   lo   | True | 127.0.0.1 | 255.0.0.0

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