netmount again is not started

lnthai2002 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 260

I go the following error while booting

INIT: Entering runlevel 3
starting eth0
Bringing up eth0
dhcp
Running dhcpcd ...
Starting local
ERROR: problem starting needed services
"netmount" was not started

I am a newbie, so everything is new for me, please help with step by step soluion
By the way, how can i install and use links2 after installing gentoo? (I just install gentoo from stage 3 half an hour ago!!!)

cokey · Advocate Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3355

lnthai2002 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 260

So it means whenever i boot the system i have to restart netmount? Is there anyway to fix the problem automatically? I did try "emerge links2" but i get emerge says that the package links2 does not exit !!!

cokey · Advocate Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3355

lnthai2002 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 260

Thanks for quick reply but i just reboot my comp and use /etc/init.d/netmount restart, I get the same error
I tried /sbin/ifconfig -a
And it show my eth0 but it doesnt look like be configurated right. I notice that when i use dhcpcd to auto config my network, it took arounf 20-30 sec but after i install gentoo and run dhcpcd, it took no time to run. So i guest it was not running after i installed gentoo. What can i do? In my system now, /sbin/lsmod show only one module: sis900 (for my network card)

cokey · Advocate Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3355

why have you built it as a module instead of in the kernel?

please post your /etc/conf.d/net
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lnthai2002 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 260

When i config the kernel, the help document suggests that sis900 should be compiled as kernel
Here is my /etc/conf.d/net
# This blank configuration will automatically use DHCP for any net.*
# scripts in /etc/init.d. To create a more complete configuration,
# please review /etc/conf.d/net.example and save your configuration
# in /etc/conf.d/net (this file :]!).
config_eth0=( "dhcp" )
dhcp_eth0=""

cokey · Advocate Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3355

well you are using dhcp so unless you get a static ip from your isp you will be fine with that.

As for your sis900 mine is the same. To compile a driver into the kernel it has to be like [*] and not [M] the last one is built as a module not as part of the kernel itself.
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lnthai2002 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 260

There r things that i dont understand clearly.
I connect to my ISP using a router (SMC700ABR) so i guess the router takes care of the WAN connection protocol (PPPoE). Thus, i did not config and compile PPPoE in the kernel (neither as module). My kernel only have tcp/ip and ipv6 support. Am i right?
When i use the universal installation cd, lsmod also shows sis900 so why the install cd use it as module and can connect. there is another hint that even when i use the install cd, i still can not connect untill i type "dhcpcd eth0" and it took about 20-30 secs to get the ip then i can use connection.
In my completed gentoo, "dhcpcd eth0" does not run at all, i guess. When i boot my comp, there is a [!!] at the line "running dhcpcd ..."
Is there anything else i can do or put into the kernel besides recompile the kernel with sis900 as internal module?
I know nothing about networking so is it possible if you post the networking part of your kernel config file so i can copy it?
Thank you for helping

cokey · Advocate Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3355

give me the output of

vinky · Apprentice Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 214 Location: Sweden

try and look at your kernellog to see if there are any errors regarding your network (eth)

lnthai2002 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 260

the output of rc-status boot is:
Runlevel: boot
clock [started]
domainname [started]
net.lo [started]
bootmisc [started ]
keymaps [started]
modules [ started ]
urandom [started]
rmnologin [started]
checkroot [started]
checkfs [started]
localmount [started]
consolefont [started]
hostname [started]
-----------------------------------------------------------------
the dmesg produces:
Linux version 2.6.13-gentoo-r5 (root@livecd) (gcc version 3.3.6 (Gentoo 3.3.6, ssp-3.3.6-1.0, pie-8.7.

) #1 Sat Nov 5 18:01:28 MST 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fffc000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fffc000 - 000000001ffff000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ffff000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
511MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 131068
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 126972 pages, LIFO batch:31
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 20000000:dec00000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hdb3
Found and enabled local APIC!
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes)
Detected 2400.167 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 514988k/524272k available (2500k kernel code, 8684k reserved, 940k data, 152k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4807.39 BogoMIPS (lpj=9614782)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00004400 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00004400 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080 00004400 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz stepping 09
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf11b0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
SCSI subsystem initialized
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Enabling SiS 96x SMBus.
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:02.5
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
PCI: Using IRQ router default [1039/0963] at 0000:00:02.0
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:02.1 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:02.3 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:02.7 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:03.3 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:04.0 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:0b.0 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:0b.1 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: d6000000-d7ffffff
PREFETCH window: dff00000-febfffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1131542672.048:1): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
NTFS driver 2.1.23 [Flags: R/O].
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:02.5
SIS5513: chipset revision 0
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SIS5513: SiS 962/963 MuTIOL IDE UDMA133 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb400-0xb407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb408-0xb40f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
hda: WDC WD800JB-00FMA0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC WD400BB-75CAA0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 >
hdb: max request size: 128KiB
hdb: Host Protected Area detected.
current capacity is 78125000 sectors (40000 MB)
native capacity is 78125040 sectors (40000 MB)
hdb: Host Protected Area disabled.
hdb: 78125040 sectors (40000 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdb: cache flushes not supported
hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 > hdb2 hdb3
hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
usbmon: debugfs is not available
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:03.3 (0004 -> 0006)
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:03.3 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin D of device 0000:00:03.3. Please try using pci=biosirq.
ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.3: Found HC with no IRQ. Check BIOS/PCI 0000:00:03.3 setup!
ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.3: init 0000:00:03.3 fail, -19
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.01:USB HID core driver
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.9b (Thu Jul 28 12:20:13 2005 UTC).
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:02.7 (0004 -> 0005)
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:02.7 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin C of device 0000:00:02.7. Please try using pci=biosirq.
unable to grab IRQ 0
Intel ICH: probe of 0000:00:02.7 failed with error -16
ALSA device list:
No soundcards found.
oprofile: using NMI interrupt.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
TCP reno registered
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (4095 buckets, 32760 max) - 212 bytes per conntrack
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ipt_recent v0.3.1: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>. http://snowman.net/projects/ipt_recent/
arp_tables: (C) 2002 David S. Miller
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI Shortcut mode
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 152k freed
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Adding 1052248k swap on /dev/hda3. Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on hdb3, internal journal
sis900.c: v1.08.08 Jan. 22 2005
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:04.0 (0004 -> 0007)
PCI: IRQ 0 for device 0000:00:04.0 doesn't match PIRQ mask - try pci=usepirqmask
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 0000:00:04.0. Please try using pci=biosirq.
0000:00:04.0: Realtek RTL8201 PHY transceiver found at address 1.
0000:00:04.0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0x9800, IRQ 0, 00:e0:18:ed:1d:1f.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
FAT: Unrecognized mount option "default" or missing value
NTFS volume version 3.1.
EXT3-fs: Unrecognized mount option "default" or missing value

lnthai2002 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 260

Vinky,
I was using the old installation handbook (not the 2005 version) that's why i have netmount started automatically but it cant start at boot time. As you can see, cokehabit is trying to help me to address the problem that there must be something wrong at boot time that prevent the dhcp from starting the network card. Also, as you guys can see, there is no error produced by dmseg except the mount options.
Cokehabit,
Is it possible that if the sis900 module needs another module loaded to run networking it will automatically call the kernel to load that module? Since it's looks weird that i only have one module (sis900) loaded when i use lsmod
Thanks for helping me guys

cokey · Advocate Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3355

you have not added netmount to the correct runlevel like i told you to

cokey · Advocate Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3355

Have a short read of this, it might explain a few things for you: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Rc-update
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lnthai2002 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 260

First of all, thanks to remind me to add netmount to load automatically. I though gentoo tried to load it at boot time but it fail but it turn out that because i didnt tell gentoo to load netmount at boot.
Anyway, it seems that netmount is not the cause for gentoo not connecting. Although i did put rc-update add nemount boot, i still cant connect to the internet and even pinging the rounter.
This is the new out put of rc-status boot:
Runlevel: [36;01mboot[0m
clock [34;01m[ [32;01mstarted [34;01m][0m
domainname [34;01m[ [32;01mstarted [34;01m][0m
net.lo [34;01m[ [32;01mstarted [34;01m][0m
bootmisc [34;01m[ [32;01mstarted [34;01m][0m
keymaps [34;01m[ [32;01mstarted [34;01m][0m
modules [34;01m[ [32;01mstarted [34;01m][0m
urandom [34;01m[ [32;01mstarted [34;01m][0m
rmnoogin [34;01m[ [32;01mstarted [34;01m][0m
checkroot [34;01m[ [32;01mstarted [34;01m][0m
checkfs [34;01m[ [32;01mstarted [34;01m][0m
localmount [34;01m[ [32;01mstarted [34;01m][0m
consolefont [34;01m[ [32;01mstarted [34;01m][0m
hostname [34;01m[ [32;01mstarted [34;01m][0m
netmount [34;01m[ [32;01mstarted [34;01m][0m

Sorry for the messy characters, it's just because i >> from the command directly
Again, when i try dhcpcd eth0, the system takes no time to run dhcpcd (i guess it does not run at all)
Try pinging my rounter, i get

ping 192.168.2.1
network unreached
So what can i do to use my internet???

cokey · Advocate Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3355

you have no net.eth0 in your boot runlevel either
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lnthai2002 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 260

I did put it at boot but i dont know why it doesnt show up

cokey · Advocate Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3355

well if it's not starting at boot then that might be why you cant get online

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lnthai2002 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 260

When i did the installation, I did
rc-update add net.eth0 default
But since you say that i must have it run at boot, i do
rc-update add net.eth0 boot
and reboot my comp
But then i got another problem:
I recieve an error saying that net.eth0 can only be run after the boot process(I gonna reboot and copy the exact error)
And right after that error is
running dhcpcd... [!!]
And
ERROR: problem starting needed services "netmount" was not started

I dont know why i have problem with netmount again when i add ne.eth0 into boot runlevel !!!

vinky · Apprentice Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 214 Location: Sweden

I also have net.eth0 at runlevel default and I dont think there is no need to put it at bootlevel
Did it work ok when you fixed the others and didnt put net.eth0 to boot?

cokey · Advocate Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3355

sorry, you are right, net.et0 goes in default not boot. Being on XP it's difficult to check if i cant remember
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lnthai2002 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 260

Viky
No, network doesnt work after i fixed the problem of netmount

lnthai2002 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 260

I removed net.eth0 from bootrunlevel and i no longer have error with netmount
But my network is still doesnt work yet.
dhcpcd eth0 doesnt run at all !!!!
I gonna recompile the kernel to make sis900 compiled into the kernel instead of loadable module. I will be back as soon as i got my system back(this is windows

)
I dont think it gonna work but at this time i dont have any other thing to try !!!!

lnthai2002 · Apprentice Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 260

I compile the the sis900 + ppp suport +ppp async + ppp sync into kernel
The compilation goes well but when i start booting from the new kernel, it hang at
Uncompressing linux ...
I waited for 1/2 hour and nothing happen
So i have to recompile the kernel to the previous state so i still have the same problem
running dhcpcd ...[!!]
As a result, i dont have network connection