| Summary: | net.lo doesnt handle non-existing interfaces nicely | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | SpanKY <vapier> |
| Component: | [OLD] baselayout | Assignee: | Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | InVCS |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 66472 | ||
In CVS - will be in baselayout-1.11.9 Fixed by baselayout-1.11.9 |
i removed my 2nd network card to install a diff one and the old kernel didnt have the driver ... so when eth1 tried to startup, i saw this: * Starting eth1 * Bringing up eth1 * 192.168.1.4 eth1: error fetching interface information: Device not found [ ok ] looking into it, net.lo has this little code in run_start(): ! interface_exists ${iface} && /sbin/modprobe ${iface} &>/dev/null the modprobe return should be checked ... if the interface doesnt exist, and modprobe failed to do anything useful, we should bail instead of trundling on perhaps: if ! interface_exists ${iface} ; then if ! /sbin/modprobe ${iface} &>/dev/null ; then eerror "${iface} does not exist :(" return 1 if fi