[gentoo-user] Heads Up - sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20120127084908 might break your system

[gentoo-user] Heads Up - sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20120127084908 might break your system

[Helmut Jarausch]

Hi,
I've just been bitten by sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20120127084908.

After reboot, the network doesn't come up:

localhost /etc/init.d/net.lo[3463]: ERROR: interface lo does not exist
localhost /etc/init.d/net.lo[3464]: Ensure that you have loaded the  
correct kernel module for your hardware
localhost /etc/init.d/net.lo[3381]: ERROR: net.lo failed to start
localhost /etc/init.d/net.eth0[3549]: ERROR: interface eth0 does not  
exist
localhost /etc/init.d/net.eth0[3550]: Ensure that you have loaded the  
correct kernel module for your hardware
localhost /etc/init.d/net.eth0[3466]: ERROR: net.eth0 failed to start

It's NOT a kernel matter since stepping back to
sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20111120203157 with the same kernel does work.

Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20120127084908 might break your system

[Helmut Jarausch]

I've just got an email from Samuli Suominen that this is a bug
in openrc-0.9.9.2  which has just been fixed by openrc-0.9.9.3

Helmut.


On 03/12/2012 09:32:00 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
> I've just been bitten by sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20120127084908.
> 
> After reboot, the network doesn't come up:
> 
> localhost /etc/init.d/net.lo[3463]: ERROR: interface lo does not exist
> localhost /etc/init.d/net.lo[3464]: Ensure that you have loaded the  
> correct kernel module for your hardware
> localhost /etc/init.d/net.lo[3381]: ERROR: net.lo failed to start
> localhost /etc/init.d/net.eth0[3549]: ERROR: interface eth0 does not  
> exist
> localhost /etc/init.d/net.eth0[3550]: Ensure that you have loaded the  
> correct kernel module for your hardware
> localhost /etc/init.d/net.eth0[3466]: ERROR: net.eth0 failed to start
> 
> It's NOT a kernel matter since stepping back to
> sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20111120203157 with the same kernel does  
> work.
> 
> Helmut.
> 
> 

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads Up - sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20120127084908 might break your system

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 12/03/12 10:32, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
> I've just been bitten by sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20120127084908.
>
> After reboot, the network doesn't come up:
>
> localhost /etc/init.d/net.lo[3463]: ERROR: interface lo does not exist
> localhost /etc/init.d/net.lo[3464]: Ensure that you have loaded the
> correct kernel module for your hardware
> localhost /etc/init.d/net.lo[3381]: ERROR: net.lo failed to start
> localhost /etc/init.d/net.eth0[3549]: ERROR: interface eth0 does not exist
> localhost /etc/init.d/net.eth0[3550]: Ensure that you have loaded the
> correct kernel module for your hardware
> localhost /etc/init.d/net.eth0[3466]: ERROR: net.eth0 failed to start
>
> It's NOT a kernel matter since stepping back to
> sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20111120203157 with the same kernel does work.

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.)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads Up - sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20120127084908 might break your system -- openvpn still fails

[felix]

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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Re: [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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On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:48:08 -0700, felix@crowfix.com wrote:

> 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?

There is a bug, the "fix" is to re-emerge openvpn. Apparently openvpn
has hardcoded paths for ifconfig and friends, which are set when it is
compiled, based on the locations at the time. Re-emerging builds it with
the new locations.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Kludge: (v., adj., or n.) to fix a program in the usual way.

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