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From: "Nuno Silva" <nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Spurious error messages at boot up from the new dhcpcd
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2023 22:41:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uc39vv$q02$1@ciao.gmane.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ZOSGZDqco6smLrg9@ACM

On 2023-08-22, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> Hello, gentoo.
>
> 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

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

-- 
Nuno Silva



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-08-22 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-22  9:56 [gentoo-user] Spurious error messages at boot up from the new dhcpcd Alan Mackenzie
2023-08-22 11:29 ` Michael
2023-08-22 13:00   ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-08-22 15:03     ` Michael
2023-08-23 10:48       ` Alan Mackenzie
2023-08-22 21:41 ` Nuno Silva [this message]
2023-08-23 10:44   ` [gentoo-user] " Alan Mackenzie

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