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Timothee
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 Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 1:44 am Post subject: boot says eth0 cannot start, but it does? |
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Hi all,
I'm having a problem at boot where the process says eth0 cannot be started and because of that, netmount and apache cannot start. However, once I log into kde, eth0 is definitely up, I have network access, and I can manually start netmount and apache without any problem.
What could the problem be? I'm not very familiar with the boot process so I'll post below what information I know. Please let know what other info I could post to help resolve this.
Thanks in advance!
Tim
messages in /var/log/messages:
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Nov 16 11:08:49 localhost tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
Nov 16 11:08:49 localhost tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
Nov 16 11:08:49 localhost rc-scripts: ERROR: cannot start netmount as net.eth0 could not start
Nov 16 11:08:50 localhost rc-scripts: ERROR: cannot start apache2 as net.eth0 could not start
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config in /etc/conf.d/net
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localhost ~ # cat /etc/conf.d/net
iface_eth0="dhcp"
dhcpcd_eth0=""
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Eth0 is set up in default start script (I even added to boot group but no change occured):
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localhost ~ # rc-update show
apache2 | default
bootmisc | boot
checkfs | boot
checkroot | boot
clock | boot
coldplug | boot
consolefont | boot
cupsd | default
hald | default
hostname | boot
hotplug | default
keymaps | boot
local | default nonetwork
localmount | boot
modules | boot
mysql | default
net.eth0 | boot default
net.lo | boot
netmount | default
rmnologin | boot
svnserve | default
syslog-ng | default
urandom | boot
vixie-cron | default
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Yui
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Joined: 21 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 2:43 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | net.eth0 | boot default |
I think it's because it is started at runlevel boot and at runlevel default.
Runlevel boot run first, and then when you enter your runlevel (3 for me) it runs default apps.
I don't know if I am understandable xD
So rc-update -d net.eth0 boot should fix the problem.
(Better not let the network at boot runlevel I think  )
Here you go
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Timothee
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 1:02 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Yui,
Thanks fo replying. I don't think that's the problem unfortunately. eth0 wasn't in the boot group when I had the problem originally. I added it to boot to see if that would improve the situation (but it didn't). Anyway, I'll remove and try again later (it's my desktop PC at work).
Thanx!
Tim. |
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Yui
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Eth0 is set up in default start script (I even added to boot group but no change occured): |
Didn't see that, sorry I was tired (*feel stupid*).
There is nothing else in the /var/log/messages about eth0 ?
Sorry I don't know 
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mhaverkamp
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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| I am experiencing this problem currently also. I don't know if it is related, but I use the tg3 driver also. None of my other Gentoo systems are experiencing this, but none of them use tg3 either. |
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FlareHeart
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 6:42 am Post subject: I am having the same problem. |
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| I am getting this same error message "cannot start netmount as net.eth0 could not start", but it seems to have come out of nowhere as it wasn't coming up when I initially installed everything and now it is coming up but it hasn't affected the starting of the interface or the networking. Are there any other ideas? |
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wah
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Location: Raleigh, NC, USA
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| Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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*bump* as I am experiencing the same issue on x86 and AMD64. Nothing more than an annoyance, but any new ideas would be cool!
Cheers,
W.
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