Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Spurious error messages at boot up from the new dhcpcd

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hello, Nuno.

On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 22:41:11 +0100, Nuno Silva wrote:
> On 2023-08-22, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> > With the new dhcpcd-10.0.2 (previous version being ?9.5.1) I get spurious
> > error messages on boot up.  In particular, I see this:

> >  * Starting DHCP Client Daemon ...
> >  * [ ok ] * Bringing up interface enp38s0
> >  *   Caching network module dependencies
> >  *   config_enp38s0 not specified; defaulting to DHCP
> >  *   dhcp ...
> >  *     The dhcpcd version is too old. Please upgrade.
> >  *     [ !! ] * ERROR: net.enp38s0 failed to start
> [...]

> > So it would appear that everything is working, but I still get error
> > messages.  The "dhcpcd version is too old" is particularly galling, given
> > that dhcpcd was updated yesterday.

> A check (in netifrc) didn't account for two-digit major version numbers
> when checking the dhcpcd version.

> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=904422

Thanks, I've had a look at that bug.  It was a simple coding error.

> So check if there's a newer version of net-misc/netifrc available.

I've currently got netifrc-0.7.3 installed.  There are 0.7.4 and 0.7.5
available (according to eshowkw).  But, for some reason, portage hasn't
upgraded my system (an amd64) to 0.7.5.  It looks as though I should do
this by hand.

> -- 
> Nuno Silva

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).