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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H3sAH-00079B-2b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 10:55:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l08AsUsL005897; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 10:54:30 GMT Received: from smtp1.iway.na (smtp1.iway.na [196.44.136.15]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l08AoECx025298 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 10:50:16 GMT Received: from vscan.iway.na (vscan.iway.na [196.44.136.13]) by smtp1.iway.na (Postfix) with ESMTP id 963406518 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 12:50:09 +0200 (WAST) Received: from mx2.iway.na (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vscan.iway.na (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB541A1DEF for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 12:50:09 +0200 (WAST) Received: from uwix.alt.na ([196.44.156.235]) by mx2.iway.na (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id JBJQ3L01.F6J for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2007 12:50:09 +0200 Received: from uwe by uwix.alt.na with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H3rgJ-0008Dv-2G for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:24:43 +0200 From: Uwe Thiem Organization: SysEx (Pty) Ltd. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Init scripts waiting for deps in progress Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 12:24:43 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: In-Reply-To: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ansi_x3.4-1968" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701081224.43051.uwix@iway.na> Sender: Uwe Thiem X-Archives-Salt: a1017f15-9f2d-4382-89aa-fc175963939b X-Archives-Hash: df61cc57af2bfc50dab55847b3b9c8b6 On 07 January 2007 19:10, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > I have the following set of init stuff: > > net.wireless depends on ipw3945d > ntp-client depends on net > net.wireless automagically starts when the interface "wireless" appears > net.wireless is in the boot runlevel > > When I boot the computer, it starts ipw3945d before net.wireless, but not > in time for the "wireless" interface to appear before it tries to start > net.wireless. Moments later, the interface appears, and it runs > net.wireless again, asynchronously, and it spends a while starting up (it > has to find the correct network, and dhcp, etc). > > While net.wireless is starting up, the system synchronously starts > ntp-client, which attempts to start net.wireless; this fails (it's already > starting), and so ntp-client fails. Then the asynchronous net.wireless > finishes starting, and I have network, but no ntp-client. You didn't say which runlevel started ntp-client. Assuming it is also in your boot runlevel, you can try to move it to your default runlevel. That way, it will start a bit later. Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 Proof of concept of a TSP solver for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/epat-0.1.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list