Hi, According to your "restart" output, net.eth0 sarts at boot runlevel, it should start at default runlevel. Check this with 'rc-update -s' If it really starts during boot runlevel, try the following : > rc-update del net.eth0 > rc-update add net.eth0 default Then restart the system. On 9/16/06, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > HI, everyone! > > I had a system lock-up during heavy hdd activity. This caused huge file > system problems. I hardly restored the system in order to boot, but > finally I had a successful "emerge -e system". Now I have some problems > left and I will appreciate your help to solve them. > I can start my network manually but can not do this through gentoo's > native mechanism. Here is the output: > > The problem: > > /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart > > * Caching service dependencies > ... [ ok ] * Service net.eth0stopping > > * WARNING: you are stopping a boot service. > > * Service net.eth0 stopped > > * Service net.eth0 starting > > * WARNING: net.eth0 has started but is inactive > > The link: > >ls -la /etc/init.d/net.eth0 > >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 15 Sep 7,18 /etc/init.d/net.eth0 -> net.lo > > The confing file: > > sed '/#/d;/^$/d' /conf/net > >modules=( "iproute2" ) > >config_eth0=( > > "10.0.0.11/24" > > "10.0.0.1/24" > >) > >routes_eth0=( > > "default via 10.0.0.10" > >) > > > Please, give me a hand to get "net.eth0" back in normal state. > > -- > Best regards, > Daniel > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- /JM