On Thursday 07 September 2006 22:26, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   I apologize for the ppp repost.  In addition to my Gentoo problems,
> an unco-ordinated MX change resulted in me not getting 36 hours worth of
> mail, so I've probably missed any replies to that.

No worries, I'll repeat what I said earlier.

>   OK, so I waited a while between kernel upgrades *AND* there was a
> layout upgrade in the meantime.  Let's just say that "make oldconfig"
> did *NOT* work very well.  I got kernel panic, and it wouldn't boot.  I
> hauled out the install CD, booted, chrooted, re-emerged kernel 2.6.16-r7
> (yeah. I know, still "behind the times"), and manually entered all the
> stuff in "make menuconfig", and rebuilt the kernel.  On bootup it
> complained about /etc/conf.d/net and pointed me to a new example file.
> I changed a couple of entries to...
>
> config_eth0="192.168.123.252 broadcast 192.168.123.255 netmask
> 255.255.255.248 mtu 1454" routes_eth0=("default via 192.168.123.254")
>
> ...and rebooted.  One less complaint.
>
>   I still have 2 problems.  During bootup, I get...
> ====================================================
>  * Loading iptables state and starting firewall ...
> FATAL: Module ip_tables not found.
> iptables-restore v1.3.5: iptables-restore: unable to initializetable 'raw'
>
> Error occurred at line: 2
> Try `iptables-restore -h' or 'iptables-restore --help' for more informat  [
> !! ] ====================================================
>
>   There seem to be a lot more entries for iptables, netfilter, and
> xtables (huh???) than I remember.  I obviously missed something
> somewhere.  Any idea from the error message which "make menuconfig" item
> it was?  Even though I'm behind a NATting ADSL router-modem, I'm taking
> down eth0, except when up/down loading email and news.

I can't remember exactly which entries cause this, but try adding conntrack 
and Connection tracking flow accounting, as well as Full NAT and the 
submodules below it.  Raw table support (required for NOTRACK/TRACE) will 
also help.

>   Secondly, whilst trying to emerge/update ppp, I get
> =====================================================
>
> >>> checking ppp-2.4.3-patches-20060707.tar.gz ;-)
>
>  * Gentoo is moving toward common configuration file for all network
>  * interfaces. Thus starting from >=ppp-2.4.3-r10 the following files
>  * are obsoleted and should be removed to avoid future confusion:
>  *     /etc/conf.d/net.ppp0 - conflict with baselayout
>  *     /etc/init.d/net.ppp0 - conflict with baselayout
>  *     /etc/ppp/chat-default - unused by this version
>  *     /etc/ppp/options-pppoe - unused by this version
>  *     /etc/ppp/options-pptp - unused by this version
>
>  * If you use the old net.ppp0 script, you need to:
>  *    - upgrade to >=sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.0_pre11
>  *    - set ppp0 parameters in /etc/conf.d/net (see example file)
>  *    - remove conflicting files
>  *    - upgrade net-dialup/ppp
>
>  * If you never used net.ppp0 script, just run the following commands:
>  *     rm //etc/conf.d/net.ppp0 //etc/init.d/net.ppp0
> //etc/ppp/chat-default //etc/ppp/options-pppoe //etc/ppp/options-pptp *    
> emerge --resume
>
> !!! ERROR: net-dialup/ppp-2.4.3-r16 failed.
> Call stack:
>   ebuild.sh, line 1555:   Called dyn_setup
>   ebuild.sh, line 668:   Called pkg_setup
>   ppp-2.4.3-r16.ebuild, line 75:   Called die
>
> !!! Conflicts with baselayout support detected
> !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack
> if relevant. ====================================================
>
>   I'm on baselayout-1.12.4-r7, and I invoke ppp for dialup with
> pon/poff.  I use pppconfig for setup.  Is it safe for me to delete the
> files?

It is safer to mv them to a different name/place.  Mine worked fine after I 
renamed them and completed the emerge.

HTH
-- 
Regards,
Mick