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 1EAJN3-0006A6-A1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 03:34:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7V3V6CS027366; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 03:31:06 GMT Received: from sj-iport-3.cisco.com (sj-iport-3-in.cisco.com [171.71.176.72]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7V3ONWD018984 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 03:24:24 GMT Received: from sj-core-5.cisco.com ([171.71.177.238]) by sj-iport-3.cisco.com with ESMTP; 30 Aug 2005 20:26:35 -0700 X-IronPort-AV: i="3.96,156,1122879600"; d="scan'208"; a="337372870:sNHT30312400" Received: from xbh-sjc-231.amer.cisco.com (xbh-sjc-231.cisco.com [128.107.191.100]) by sj-core-5.cisco.com (8.12.10/8.12.6) with ESMTP id j7V3QRos003739 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:26:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xfe-sjc-211.amer.cisco.com ([171.70.151.174]) by xbh-sjc-231.amer.cisco.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:26:27 -0700 Received: from [10.89.24.107] ([10.89.24.107]) by xfe-sjc-211.amer.cisco.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:26:27 -0700 Message-ID: <43152366.3040904@cisco.com> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 22:26:30 -0500 From: Roy Wright User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050725) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Following a well overdue world -u I have no network References: <87zmqy3klt.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87zmqy3klt.fsf@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 31 Aug 2005 03:26:27.0358 (UTC) FILETIME=[C58AD3E0:01C5ADDB] X-Archives-Salt: 92618626-99f6-4abf-a6c2-3d1698dbeef1 X-Archives-Hash: 966440692224d81b3574d811fd5260f9 Harry Putnam wrote: >Followin a well overdue emerge world -u I have no network on reboot. > >The pieces seem to be there, although I'm not sure I remember what all >goes into it. > >/etc/conf.d/net has the eht0 address and gateway address but its not >getting set on bootup. > >I can ifconfig and route it into place of course but wondering why it >isn't just happening like before the update. > >I went thru the new conf files with etc-update and seemingly was >carefull to get them right or merged etc. > >Another very disturbing phenomena is that a mail spool directory I've >used for years in ~/spool is getting deleted by something. This is >not tolerable of course since all mail resides there at least until it >is slurped by my emacs/gnus reader. > >I did notice some rsnaphot errors on first reboot that indicated a >needed parameter (`config_version') was missing from my conf files. >Must be someting new in rsnapshot since those confs worked fine >prior to update. I went ahead and added the parameter: > config_version 1.2 to each conf and recieved no more errors. > >What steps do I need to track down the network not getting setup and >the mysterious deletions? > >Can some one just list the various files that contain the needed >network settings. Maybe I've inadvertantly overwritten something. > >Any ideas how to track donw what is deleting ~/spool? > > > > For the network problem: hostname and domainname migrated from /etc to /etc/conf.d check /etc/conf.d/net for something like: iface_eth0="dhcp" check dmesg check /var/log HTH, Roy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list