@KarstenV Thanks for reportign this and yes it is a bit disconcerting. I haven’t managed to reproduce here but need to put more time into it. I know the network stuff has been reworked of late so the 3.8-7 and 3.8-8 systems are actually different. Here I have agreement on the actual and displayed ip so far (fresh 3.8-7 to 3.8-8 upgrade) but still using dhcp. Will try your steps once I’ve done with some other loose ends.
I have seen the “system has no ip message” and we have an open issue on this: bogus noip message in console In that case I was not infrequently seeing that message and after just a little wait and a carriage return and the message was updated to what might be expected. Some kind of timing issue. However the scope of the changes in the network config may well have changed this completely. I think we are going to have to wait until @suman can comment / reproduce.
Glad you got up and running again. Really we need some kind of “Find my Rockstor” web based thing which has been discussed but I just don’t know how this can be done just yet, I was thinking of some kind of network scan that looked for modern kernel signatures in ip returns. Any ideas welcome as this console message is only part of the story really.