Erroneous "mismatching interface name" error?

[Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars redhat com>]

I have a system (an OpenShift bare metal node running RHCOS
47.83.202103051045-0) with NetworkManager 1.26.0. The system recently
lost its public ip address. When I logged into the system, I saw:

    # nmcli c show
    NAME                UUID                                  TYPE      DEVICE
    Wired connection 1  de1f2c7a-9fb9-3581-89ce-43cb3157db92  ethernet  eno1
    Wired connection 2  e2318199-ce78-35d4-91b0-b2b4a73fb6b6  ethernet  --
    Wired connection 3  e14a050c-e6c6-33f5-93ef-d1db97a39052  ethernet  --
    Wired connection 4  ae774310-1c88-3354-9d0d-82997bae23b5  ethernet  --

Where "Wired connection 2" is supposed to be online for device eno2.
The device is set correctly in the connection configuration:

    # nmcli c show 'Wired connection 2'
    [...]
    connection.interface-name:              eno2

And the interface was in fact present, although it was showing
NO-CARRIER (which is maybe why we lost the address in the first place,
but doesn't explain the subsequent error):

    # ip addr show eno2
    3: eno2: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default qlen 1000
        link/ether 90:b1:1c:3a:15:7f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff


When I tried to bring up the interface by running `nmcli c up
"Wired connection 2"`, I received the following error:

    # nmcli c up 'Wired connection 2'
    Error: Connection activation failed: No suitable device found for this
    connection (device eno1 not available because profile is not
    compatible with device (mismatching interface name)).

Why was this connection trying to use eno1 instead of eno2?

After rebooting the system, the interface came up without a problem:

    # nmcli c show
    NAME                UUID                                  TYPE      DEVICE
    Wired connection 2  e2318199-ce78-35d4-91b0-b2b4a73fb6b6  ethernet  eno2
    Wired connection 1  de1f2c7a-9fb9-3581-89ce-43cb3157db92  ethernet  eno1
    Wired connection 3  e14a050c-e6c6-33f5-93ef-d1db97a39052  ethernet  --
    Wired connection 4  ae774310-1c88-3354-9d0d-82997bae23b5  ethernet  --

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