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From: felix@crowfix.com
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads Up - sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20120127084908 might break your system -- openvpn still fails
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:48:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120317154808.GA5250@crowfix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jjkqcf$ns2$1@dough.gmane.org>

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 02:32:09PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> I've anyone is hit by this and doesn't have a way to download an older 
> version anymore, the solution is fairly simple:
> 
>    ln -s /bin/ifconfig /sbin/
>    /etc/init.d/net.lo restart
>    /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart
>    rm /sbin/ifconfig
>    [sync and update world]
> 
> (Substitute "eth0" with whatever you're using.)

This appears to help with eth0 etc, but my openvpn fails with

    Linux ifconfig failed: could not execute external program

Leaving the sbin symlink in place fixes this.

I didn't see any gentoo bugs for this -- I can create a new one, but
is there another one related to the symlink that I should add this
note to?

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-17 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-12  8:32 [gentoo-user] Heads Up - sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20120127084908 might break your system Helmut Jarausch
2012-03-12  8:39 ` Helmut Jarausch
2012-03-12 12:32 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2012-03-17 15:48   ` felix [this message]
2012-03-19 23:20     ` [gentoo-user] Re: Heads Up - sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20120127084908 might break your system -- openvpn still fails Neil Bothwick

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