From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S74Rr-0000KY-SN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:34:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 01228E0B48; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:33:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9C6FE0A8D for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:32:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D8521B4019 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:32:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.01 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ZoJd88yp5CEB for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:32:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 971661B4018 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:32:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S74QQ-0001if-Ac for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:32:30 +0100 Received: from athedsl-345643.home.otenet.gr ([85.72.205.201]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:32:30 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-345643.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:32:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads Up - sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20120127084908 might break your system Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:32:09 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <1331541120.21555.0@numa-i> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-345643.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120302 Thunderbird/10.0.1 In-Reply-To: <1331541120.21555.0@numa-i> X-Archives-Salt: 7d999a63-4c85-408c-a0b6-9dfa08784919 X-Archives-Hash: d2609b2fbc715e9872602d9edae5152c 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.)