Hi, network services like sshd do not start during boot here. But if I start it manually afterwards they work flawless. It seems that baselayout's net script returns before the net is completely up so following net service init scripts time out. I have baselayout-1.12.0_pre13-r1 installed. Here is a boot log: ---------------------- * Loading networking modules for lo * modules: ifconfig system * ifconfig provides interface * Bringing up lo * 127.0.0.1/8 [ ok ] * Adding routes * 127.0.0.0/8 ... [ ok ] * Initializing random number generator ... [ ok ] INIT: Entering runlevel: 3 * sysklogd -> start: syslogd ... [ ok ] * sysklogd -> start: klogd ... [ ok ] * Starting acpid ... [ ok ] * Starting ath0 * Loading networking modules for ath0 * modules: adsl apipa arping macchanger macnet rename wpa_supplicant essidnet iptunnel ifconfig pppd system dhcpcd * wpa_supplicant provides wireless * ifconfig provides interface * pppd provides ppp * dhcpcd provides dhcp * Configuring ath0 for MAC address 00:30:95:FE:21:48 ... [ ok ] * Starting wpa_supplicant on ath0 ... [ ok ] * Starting wpa_cli on ath0 ... [ ok ] * Waiting for association [ ok ] * Backgrounding ... * ERROR: Problem starting needed services. * "distccd" was not started. * ERROR: Problem starting needed services. * "ntp-client" was not started. * ERROR: Problem starting needed services. * "spamd" was not started. * Starting postfix ... [ !! ] * ERROR: Problem starting needed services. * "sshd" was not started. * Starting vixie-cron ... [ ok ] * Setting up kdm ... [ ok ] * Starting local ... [ ok ] This is lab5.unknown_domain (Linux i686 2.6.14.4) 20:16:39 lab5 login: root Password: Last login: Thu Jan 12 20:17:05 2006 on tty2 lab5 ~ # /etc/init.d/sshd start * Starting sshd ... [ ok ] lab5 ~ # ping -c1 google.de PING google.de (216.239.57.104) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 216.239.57.104: icmp_seq=1 ttl=237 time=175 ms --- google.de ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 175.275/175.275/175.275/0.000 ms --------------------- I already tried hotplug_ath0="no" and hotplug_wifi0="no" (I have a madwifi wireless lan card) in /etc/conf.d/net and set RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING="yes" in rc to no avail. If you need more info about the systems with this problem (thinkpad X24 and T22, ~x86), please let me know. Please note I also started a discussion about this issue here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-422314-highlight-.html
associate_timeout_ath0=-1 by by default, which means go into background immediately. The downside of this is that you get this problem at boot time. associate_timeout_ath0=60 means wait 60 seconds before timing out, which solves this problem. I would like to keep the default at -1 (same goes for ifplugd and netplug with plug_timeout_eth0) AND solve this at the same time, so I'll keep this bug open, but you now know how to resolve it for the time being.
You can also resvole the issue by setting RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING="none" or RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING="lo". It's not a hotplug issue.
I have code to fix this in svn, will be in baselayout-1.12.0_pre14
baselayout-1.12.0_pre14 is out
I updated any related packets and now the network services start as expected. sys-kernel/vanilla-sources-2.6.15.1 sys-fs/udev-081 sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.0_pre14-r2 net-wireless/madwifi-driver-0.1401.20060117 net-wireless/madwifi-tools-0.1401.20060117 net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-0.5.0-r1 Thank you very much and please close this report.
