emerging new baselayout ---> No NETWORK [solved]

KLG · Last edited by KLG on Wed Dec 21, 2005 6:40 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hello ppl, the upgrading of hal, dbus, udev resulted in the upgrading of baselayout, to baselayout1.12.0 pre12

When i realised that all init scripts would be modified i started praying and crossing fingers. Of course it didn't work and that's
why i am writing this post.!!!

When net.eth0 starts i dont see the wingates/ip manually assigned from the net file. But this:

* Starting ifplugd on eth0
* Backrounding...

I cant ping the LAN, and i can't access the net

((((
I am 100% sure that this is the problem... I don't remember seeing that before.

1. Of course i allowed etc-update to update everything...
2. net.eth0 and net.lo are the same
3. rc-status -a shows net.lo started and net.eth0 inactive

What is going on?

Any help is appreciated

Thanks

The /etc/conf.d/net file

UberLord · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 4:30 pm Post subject:

Ensure that ifplugd-0.28-r4 is installed and /etc/init.d/ifplugd gets updated.

baselayout now controls ifplugd - ifplugd starts/stops net.xxx scripts if cable is removed / plugged in.

So if ifplugd doesn't work on your box then unmerge it, or disable it like so

KLG · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 4:39 pm Post subject:

emerge -s showed me that i have ifplugd 0.28 , so i guess i must search for the LiveCD (since i have no network) and try to emerge 0.28r4...

UberLord · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject:

Huh? Just disable it like I showed above, then you get the same behaviour as before. No need for a live CD

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KLG · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 6:39 pm Post subject:

Uberlord, thanx.
Did the !ifplugd trick as you mentioned, and despite the warnings that my network settings syntax is deprecated, everything worked fine!
then i unmasked the ifplugd and emerge it (suprisingly enough there were 0 kb to download!!!) , then deleted the !ifplugd and it works like a charm...

and it is faster... during the startup...

My only comment is that portage should upgrade the masked ifplugd also with the upgrade of hal/bus/udev/baselayout

Again thanx for your support