[CentOS] Centos 7 - "Device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization".

Hi All :)

I have three servers, all with centos 7 installed 3 days ago. I need on
them "old" naming scheme (ethX) for network interfaces, because of that:

# grep GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX /etc/sysconfig/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.lvm.lv=centos_node-XY/swap rd.lvm.lv=centos_node-XY/root
rhgb quiet ipv6.disable=1 net.ifnames=0"

net.ifnames=0 was added and afterwards I ran:

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

Then I created /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules with content:

SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
ATTR{address}=="00:1e:67:7f:9c:98", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*",
NAME="eth0"
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
ATTR{address}=="00:1e:67:7f:9c:99", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*",
NAME="eth1"
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
ATTR{address}=="00:1e:67:7f:9c:9a", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*",
NAME="eth2"
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
ATTR{address}=="00:1e:67:7f:9c:9b", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*",
NAME="eth3"
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
ATTR{address}=="00:1e:67:81:37:0d", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*",
NAME="eth4"
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
ATTR{address}=="00:1e:67:81:37:0e", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*",
NAME="eth5"
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
ATTR{address}=="90:e2:ba:46:ef:30", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*",
NAME="eth6"
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
ATTR{address}=="90:e2:ba:46:ef:31", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*",
NAME="eth7"

After reboot it worked fine for all 3 servers, but some time later after
another reboot I get:

# systemctl status network
network.service - LSB: Bring up/down networking
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/network)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2015-10-20 20:37:30 CEST;
13h ago
  Process: 2034 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start (code=exited,
status=1/FAILURE)

Oct 20 20:37:24 node-X systemd-sysctl[2049]: Overwriting earlier assignment
of net/bridge/bridge-nf-call-ip6tables in file
'/etc/sysctl.d/99-sysctl.conf'.
Oct 20 20:37:25 node-X network[2034]: Bringing up loopback interface:  [
 OK  ]
Oct 20 20:37:25 node-X network[2034]: Bringing up interface eth1:  ERROR
 : [/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth] Device eth1 does not seem to
be present, delaying initialization.
Oct 20 20:37:25 node-X network[2034]: [FAILED]
Oct 20 20:37:27 node-X network[2034]: Bringing up interface eth6:  [  OK  ]
Oct 20 20:37:30 node-X network[2034]: Bringing up interface eth7:  [  OK  ]
Oct 20 20:37:30 node-X systemd[1]: network.service: control process exited,
code=exited status=1
Oct 20 20:37:30 node-X systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Bring up/down
networking.
Oct 20 20:37:30 node-X systemd[1]: Unit network.service entered failed
state.

I see now that the device for which I have an entry in udev:

SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
ATTR{address}=="00:1e:67:7f:9c:99", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*",
NAME="eth1"

with MAC 00:1e:67:7f:9c:99 is not eth1 as it should be but

4: eth2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:1e:67:7f:9c:99 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

and there is no eth1 in the system.

# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
TYPE=Ethernet
BOOTPROTO=static
DEFROUTE=no
PEERDNS=no
PEERROUTES=no
IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=no
IPV6INIT=no
IPV6_AUTOCONF=no
IPV6_DEFROUTE=no
IPV6_PEERDNS=no
IPV6_PEERROUTES=no
IPV6_FAILURE_FATAL=no
NAME=eth1
#UUID=e421e35f-3397-4a93-9449-0aa4e9ef9e1d
DEVICE=eth1
ONBOOT=yes
IPADDR=1.2.3.4
NETMASK=255.255.255.0

All pages which I found about "Device ethX does not seem to be present,
delaying initialization" tell to correctly configure udev but it is
correctly configured and it worked some time ago, only recently i started
to get problems with this on 3 servers at once. I also noticed that on one
of them when I saw the problem and rebooted the server eth1 was correctly
assigned afterwards but after another reboot the message happened again.
Quite strange to me :D

Have you had similar problems on centos7? Any advice?

Thanks :)

BR,
Rafal.