netmount failed to start at boot

Brayshakes · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 129

Because of this, I now cannot get an IP addy through dhcp. Is something missing that makes this become a problem?

jeanfrancis · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 6:21 am Post subject:

Could you post the reason of the fail of netmount? It generally fails because net.eth0 or net.eth1 didn't start properly and this is the source of your problem...

Could you also post the content of ifconfig -a and /etc/conf.d/net ?

Thanks

Brayshakes · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 129

Error: Problem Starting needed services
"netmount" was not started.

in Ifconfig -a, three devices are listed and they are eth0, which has an exceptionally long HWaddr and also: "Link encap: UNSPEC", eth1 and lo.

my net file reads

config_eth0=( "dhcp" )
dhcp_eth0="nodns nontp nonis"

jeanfrancis · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 3:41 pm Post subject:

Do you have any not started script when you execute:

Brayshakes · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 129

it says in the default runlevel that it in installed but off.

jeanfrancis · Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:16 am Post subject:

What service? netmount? any other stopped service in there?

Brayshakes · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 129

netmount and net.eth0 are both off.

jeanfrancis · Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:27 am Post subject:

That's the problem. Netmount will not start until all network interfaces that have to start are started.

Could you post the output of:

Brayshakes · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 129

no output, really. Just
*starting eth0
*bringing up eth0
*dhcp
*Running dhcpcd ... [!!!]

jeanfrancis · Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:38 am Post subject:

DHCPCD failed. That means your card isn't able to get any addess from your DHCP server.

Make sure that DHCP is enabled on your router/modem.

Also, make sure that eth0 is the proper network interface. If you have a wired ethernet and a wireless card, maybe they are switched.

You can view some interesting information running:

Brayshakes · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 129

ah, I think I might not have merged dhcpcd

jeanfrancis · Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:47 am Post subject:

That could be the problem too

If there is no waiting and time-out, this is surely that

You may have to reboot with the install CD and redo the mount and chroot sections. You should then be able to emerge dhcpcd.

jeanfrancis · Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:52 am Post subject:

Also, you can know if you have it or not using

Brayshakes · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 129

ok, still isn't working. Maybe the install didn't create the init script for eth0. And, the command line install used genkernel to install my kernel. How do I modify my kernel, its not in the /usr/src/linux directory.

jeanfrancis · Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:00 am Post subject:

If you have eth0 listed when you type ifconfig -a, then your kernel supports your card and you don't have to modify it.

The kernel does not create the init scripts. And you do have an eth0 init script since the command /etc/init.d/net.eth0 do not output "No such file or directory".

You can also know that the script reads your /etc/conf.d/net file since it tries to start the DHCP.

Please verify if you have dhcpcd with the command I listed. If you have it, then I would think you have a problem with the physical connection.

Brayshakes · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 129

new error when i run the init script
*Running dhcpcd
error, dhcpStart: interface eth0 is not Ethernet or 802.2 token ring

jeanfrancis · Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:11 am Post subject:

Brayshakes · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 129

no such file or directory.

jeanfrancis · Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:15 am Post subject:

Brayshakes · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 129

well, first you should know the ls output:
ls: /etc/init.d/net.eth1: No such file or directory
0 /etc/init.d/net.eth0

after running the init scripts, the errors are still the same. Eth0 won't get an addy and eth1 doesn't exist.

jeanfrancis · Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:22 am Post subject:

This was not ls, but ln -s

Brayshakes · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 129

ok, did the ln command and recieved the same errors. What did that command do?

jeanfrancis · Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:26 am Post subject:

You receive an error of "No such file or directory"?

ln -s should create a symbolic link between net.eth1 (creating it) and net.eth0...

If net.eth1 does not exist, double-check the command that you wrote and run it again.

Brayshakes · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Apr 2006 Posts: 129

ok, the command returned
ls: '/etc/init.d/net.eth1': file exists. But, after running the init script for eth0 and 1, I still returned the same errors.

jeanfrancis · Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:33 am Post subject:

Okay... the DHCP fails or you get the error saying that the interfaces are not Ethernet?