From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DsEqF-0006Ec-PY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 07:06:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6C74RTo008299; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 07:04:27 GMT Received: from wdscexfe02.sc.wdc.com (wdscexfe02.sc.wdc.com [129.253.170.52]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6C70OE9005779 for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 07:00:25 GMT Received: from neuromancer.home.net ([129.253.107.150]) by wdscexfe02.sc.wdc.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:01:11 -0700 Received: from neuromancer.home.net (neuromancer.home.net [127.0.0.1]) by neuromancer.home.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6C710nv023352 for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 15:01:00 +0800 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP-based eth0 startup failure. From: Ow Mun Heng To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <42d04008.o8aGyuRPFUKoSQ7M%dnebinger@cornholio.joat.com> References: <42d04008.o8aGyuRPFUKoSQ7M%dnebinger@cornholio.joat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 15:01:00 +0800 Message-Id: <1121151660.15192.52.camel@neuromancer.home.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Jul 2005 07:01:12.0111 (UTC) FILETIME=[7CCC9BF0:01C586AF] X-Archives-Salt: 24d321d0-3293-43e8-8764-c58977b0561b X-Archives-Hash: 3e281e08d5f1592b2fe7cf1fd8d83fac 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 -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 15:00:59 up 4 days, 22:57, 7 users, load average: 1.44, 1.23, 1.62 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list