Bug 407901

Summary:	net-tools-1.60_p20120127084908 breaks openrc network config
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Martin <mrbscreen>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	521720

Description Martin 2012-03-12 10:29:19 UTC

Installing sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20120127084908 breaks the network configuration over ifconfig in openrc (possibly any version).

The cause is that the ifconfig.sh module from openrc ( /lib64/rc/net/ifconfig.sh ) searches for the ifconfig executable in /sbin .

Installing the net-tools in the above version, moves ifconfig from /sbin to /bin .

So the ifconfig module from openrc is disabled, and you get some mysterious error messages like "executable _exists not found" this funktion and some others will be exported by the ifconfig.sh module from openrc if and only if the ifconfig executable is found in /sbin (see line 6 in ifconfig.sh).

A simple ln -s /bin/ifconfig /sbin/ifconfig let the network setup works again.

For my opinion either the ifconfig.sh module from openrc should search on both locations or a symlink should be created by net-tools.

Without any modification not network came up including the lo interface.

Best reagards
Martin

Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-03-12 10:31:42 UTC

upgrade openrc. search bugzilla next time (also closed bugs).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 407757 ***