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[Paul Boven <p.boven@xxxxxxxxx>]

Same problem on two identical machines that have dual 1Gb/s ethernet cards on the motherboard.
This apparently causes booting to stall for about a minute, see this snippet from syslog after a boot. These timestamps are
while the machine is booting, and hasn't gotten to the point where it presents a login prompt.

Sep 27 15:48:31 cl1 ntpd[1432]: new interface(s) found: waking up resolver
Sep 27 15:49:54 cl1 udevd[691]: error changing net interface name rename3 to p2p1: File exists

That interface really shouldn't be renamed to p2p1 though!

BIOS device: p2p2
Kernel name: rename3
Permanent MAC: 00:25:90:64:6D:E9
Assigned MAC : 00:25:90:64:6D:E9
ifIndex: 3
Driver: igb
Driver version: 4.1.2-k
Firmware version: 1.96, 0x8000090e
Bus Info: 0000:02:00.1
PCI name      : 0000:02:00.1
PCI Slot      : 2
Index in slot: 2

Machines are running Raring Ringtail 3.8.0.31 (patches updated today,
didn't have this issue previously)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1090002

Title:
  biosdevname gives name of device as rename7 in Quantal

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “udev” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “linux” source package in Quantal:
  Confirmed
Status in “udev” source package in Quantal:
  Confirmed
Status in “linux” source package in Raring:
  Confirmed
Status in “udev” source package in Raring:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  In Quantal kernel biosdevname feature is not working as it suppose to
  be. On hardware we are seeing an issue where few of the network
  interface names are named as rename7 etc.. while biosdevname -d
  utility provides the correct biosname while kernel name have been
  messed up. There are total 16 network interfaces on the server which
  are ALOMs for Emulex card connected to system.

  It seems this issue is a race condition and will get fixed in Fedora
  18. But having fix in Quantal will help also.

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=782145

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