From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2FF2215800A for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2023 21:40:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0B542BC098; Tue, 22 Aug 2023 21:40:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.io (ciao.gmane.io [116.202.254.214]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-256) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A6A652BC018 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2023 21:40:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qYZ6v-0007Az-Ee for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Aug 2023 23:40:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: "Nuno Silva" Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Spurious error messages at boot up from the new dhcpcd Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2023 22:41:11 +0100 Message-ID: References: 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-Archives-Salt: 8b627b52-2a7f-4760-9518-894de98180d0 X-Archives-Hash: b2ae8ace36ad6690c74f3a41b72862a2 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