Bug 427088

Summary:	sys-apps/openrc-0.10.5 has stopped working with sys-apps/netplug
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Rafał Mużyło <galtgendo>
Component:	[OLD] baselayout	Assignee:	OpenRC Team <openrc>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	nikoli, polynomial-c
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	417391

Description Rafał Mużyło 2012-07-18 12:23:48 UTC

A few days ago, I've upgraded a few packages - it may or may not play a role here, as it was nothing low-level (glib, gtk+, heimdal, etc.).

As I rebooted, openrc (0.9.9.3 at the time) has failed to bring eth0 up while using netplug. I've upgraded to 0.10.5, but that made no difference.

Unmerging netplug helped.
Out of curiosity, I've emerged ifplugd and that one did work.

I've got no idea were the problem lies.

Portage 2.2.0_alpha110 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.5.4, glibc-2.14.1-r3, 3.2.1-gentoo-r1 i686)
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System uname: Linux-3.2.1-gentoo-r1-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_XP_2500+-with-gentoo-2.1

Comment 1 William Hubbs gentoo-dev

2012-08-23 14:49:37 UTC

The official repository for this package hasn't been touched in 2
years[1]. The debian guys have deprecated it in favor of ifplugd [2].
So we need to decide what to do with it.

[1] http://www.red-bean.com/~bos
[2] http://people.debian.org/~enrico/netplugd.html

Comment 2 William Hubbs gentoo-dev

2012-08-23 15:03:25 UTC

The alternative, ifplugd, hasn't been touched upstream since 2005 [1].
So, we need to decide what to do with this support as well.

[1] http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/ifplugd

Comment 3 Robin Johnson archtester

2012-09-30 22:24:29 UTC

I cannot reproduce this.
Tested on my X220 laptop, kernel 3.5.0-rc4. netplug detects cable changes perfectly.

Please turn off everything else on that interface, and test with:
netplugd -i eth0 -F -D

and plug/unplug the cable, and post the output.