Bug 102247 – GNAP 1.8 has network start problems

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Hosted Projects

[Description Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2005-08-12 07:58:04 UTC]

Using GNAP 1.8, you might notice network cards starting without messages or
other network starting oddities (like NBCARDS being ignored).

This is due to two factors : Recent Catalyst scripts not adding net.eth0 to the
default runlevel as they used to do, and udev hotplug voodoo starting leftover
network scripts in the background without any messages...

Fortunately, there is a workaround :
- add an empty etc/hotplug/net.agent file to your overlay (to disable udev
infamous silent device autostart)
- add START_SERVICES="net.eth0" in your overlay.conf (to start eth0)

This will of course be fixed in a 1.8.1 bugfix release.

[Comment 1 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) 2005-08-12 08:40:53 UTC]

There is another workaround: 
 
- Set NBCARDS=1 (any number < 2 will do I guess) 
- Configure the network cards you want started in /etc/conf.d/net 

[Comment 2 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2005-08-28 02:24:41 UTC]

Hmm. Apparently there is something broken in the livecd/rcadd thing (used to
work). The current specs contain :

livecd/rcadd:
  net.eth0:default

So they should run net.eth0 by default in all cases.

[Comment 3 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2005-08-28 02:31:31 UTC]

OK, this is bug 98165. The rcadd/rcdel lines now need to be written like this :

livecd/rcadd:
  net.eth0|default

This will need some doc fixes. For the net-agent thing, its removal will be
added to fsscript.

[Comment 4 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2005-08-29 01:42:38 UTC]

Fix in CVS, Doc needs to be updated.

[Comment 5 Thierry Carrez (RETIRED) 2005-08-31 05:04:29 UTC]

Fixed in 1.8.1 release