RE: [gentoo-user] DHCP-based eth0 startup failure.

["Dave Nebinger" <dnebinger@joat.com>]

> On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 17:22 -0400, dnebinger@joat.com wrote:
> > Hey, all.  Suffered power outtage yesterday.  Not much of a big deal as
> the
> > ups brought the system down on battery...
> >
> > That's the good news.  The bad news is that, upon system boot, my dhcp-
> based
> > eth0 interface no longer comes up and I don't know why...
> >
> > When the init script is run it reports that it is bringing the card up
> in
> > DHCP and that it is calling dhclient.  At that point, however, the
> startup
> > shows the [!!] indicating a failure occurred but I have no real details
> why.
> >
> > The only thing in the system log is a message from dhclient:
> > receive_packet failed on eth0: Network is down.
> 
> I suspect dhclient's pid was still around and you need to manually
> kill/zap it before it will restart itself.
> 
> I believe also that if you were to restart your PC/server now, all will
> be oK

Cycled the system many times with pretty much the same result.  Initially
dmesg was showing that ifconfig was failing due to some SMP issue so I
updated the kernel to 2.6.12.2 and installed and this failure went away.

But now any boot results in the dhcp starting for eth0 but then failing
completely.

When the system comes up I can log in as root and manually start eth0 by
running the dhcp command as /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start should be trying to
do (although I can't tell that it is doing as I suspect).


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