net.eth0 related services failing to start @ boot

StoneC0ld · n00b Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 56

I'm having troubles getting all services requiring net.eth0 as a dependency to boot @ start....

Net.eth0 appears to start ok at the moment, because ssh connections are refused and not timing out, but I get syslog messages saying that each of the services requiring net.eth0 (including sshd) failed to start because net.eth0 was not running.... Datacenter support staff are able to login and start sshd manually, though don't know if they're using the init script or sshd command directly....

Any ideas how I might fix this? It's getting rather annoying having to ticket the datacenter to start sshd every time I reboot, and I'm having to reboot fairly frequently trying to get vmware server to work.....

Thanks..

nixnut · Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 12:19 pm Post subject:

Is net.eth0 in the default runlevel? check with rc-update show
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StoneC0ld · n00b Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 56

It is..... It does start, because until the datacenter starts sshd, ssh connections are refused.... While it's down, connections time out, so if net.eth0 really fails to start, it would continue to time out....

abc0815 · n00b Joined: 07 Jul 2004 Posts: 54

hi,
can you post rc-status show ? Bay "datacenter" you mean that you have a server leased right ?
cheers

StoneC0ld · n00b Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 56

monitor ~ # rc-status default
Runlevel: default
netmount [ stopped ]
local [ started ]
net.eth0 [ started ]
syslog-ng [ started ]
vixie-cron [ started ]
sshd [ started ]
xinetd [ started ]
oidentd [ stopped ]
vmware [ broken ]
* You have some broken symbolic links as reported by the broken
* status above. This can be fixed by removing the broken service
* from its runlevel and re-adding it back using rc-update.

vmware I'm not surprised about it, it's being nothing but problems.....

Yes, it's a leased (or something like that) server at a remote datacenter, so I don't have physical access.....

abc0815 · n00b Joined: 07 Jul 2004 Posts: 54

hm not rc-status default.

erik258 · Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 9:53 pm Post subject:

have you tried running the sshd init script by hand and seeing what happens?

I know the datacenter people manage to start it, but perhaps they just run sshd itself, as you previously suggested.
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StoneC0ld · n00b Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 56

StoneC0ld · n00b Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 56

*bump*

Any solution?

erik258 · Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:54 am Post subject:

if only dmesg would explain it!

StoneC0ld · n00b Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 56

no error from net.eth0 in the logs

From what I can remember, the logs had the nic driver output showing a successful initialization, immediately followed by rc-scripts error messages for each rc script that depends on net.eth0....

Not running gentoo at this moment, but looking to go back to it if we can find a solution.....

erik258 · Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 5:16 am Post subject:

not a great solution, but i think i would just remove the net.eth0 dependancy lines, or maybe before that try letting the lines do the trick and removing the net.eth0 in the default runlevel.
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bandreabis · Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 9:43 pm Post subject:

Don't know last changes in unstable but