Re: [gentoo-user] no network "eth0" after upgrade.

[thelma@sys-concept.com]

On 12/19/2015 01:13 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hello, Thelma.
> 
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 12:10:58PM -0700, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
>> I just upgraded one of my systems and upon boot there is no network:
> 
>> /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start
>> * Mounting local filesystems ...
>> mount: mount point /proc/bus/usb does not exist
>> * Some local filesystem failed to start
>> ERROR: localmount failed to start
>> ERROR: cannot start net.eth0 as localmount would not start
> 
>> rc-status sysinit
>> sysfs   [  started  ]
>> dmesg   [  started  ]
>> devfs  [  started  ]
>> tmpfiles.dev  [  started  ]
>> udev   [  started
> 
> 
>> I can not even ssh to the system as network is not working.
>> What to check next?
> 
> Have you got CONFIG_FHANDLE set in your kernel config?  This almost
> tripped me up when I synched a day or two ago.  The new udev ebuild
> output a message saying this was needed.  It wasn't wrong, either.
> 
> CONFIG_FHANDLE can be found in General Setup, under the prompt "open by
> fhandle syscalls".


I had CONFIG_FHANDLE=y in kernel .config

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Thelma