Elevate blocker: AlmaLinux 9 elevate fails with Network Manager using 'keyfile' format, instead of /etc/syconfing/ifcfg-* format – cPanel

Symptoms

When running Elevate on your server using AlmaLinux 9, with NetworkManager using 'keyfile' format for networking instead of /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-* files, the sysconfig network-script files can not be located.

# /scripts/elevate-cpanel --check
...
* 2026-06-04 17:36:08 [INFO]
* 2026-06-04 17:36:10 [WARN] Unknown error while checking blockers: Couldn't open /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: No such file or directory at /scripts/elevate-cpanel line 4930.

Description

On AlmaLinux 9 servers, the 'ifcfg-*' network scripts will no longer be present on the server once they are migrated to NetworkManager.

# nmcli connection migrate
Warning: nmcli (1.54.3) and NetworkManager (1.54.0) versions don't match. Restarting NetworkManager is advised.
Connection 'System eth0' (5fb06bd0-0bb0-7ffb-45f1-d6edd65f3e03) successfully migrated.
Connection 'eth0' (b3d856cc-3a3f-4917-8b25-46a5669fdfae) successfully migrated.
Connection 'lo' (36e045df-9d23-49f6-bf2a-317d2abd26cd) successfully migrated.

This leaves the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ directory without the files.

# ls -al /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root   33 Jun  4 17:31 .
drwxr-xr-x. 6 root root 4096 Jun  4 15:40 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1244 Jun  3 11:03 readme-ifcfg-rh.txt

We've opened an internal case for our development team to investigate this further. For reference, the case number is CPANEL-53781. Follow this article to receive an email notification when a solution is published in the product.

Workaround

None at this time.