Bugzilla Bug 144431

- I have sshd in my default runlevel.
- I am using ifplugd to manage my two network interfaces
  (eth0: wired, eth1: wireless)
- When I boot my notebook with an Ethernet cable attached,
  sshd is started during boot.
- When I boot my notebook with no Ethernet cable attached,
  sshd is not started during boot, although a wireless connection
  is established. Running /etc/init.d/sshs start manually works fine,
  though.

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Portage 2.1.1_pre5-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1/vanilla,
glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r5 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r5 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU           L2400  @
1.66GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4
Last Sync: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:30:09 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [disabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: 2.0.0_rc2-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r2
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.60
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/compiler
/etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo
/etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig cvs digest distlocks fixpackages
metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms sign strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.gentoo.no/
ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo
ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
LINGUAS=""
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/gnome-experimental"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
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wmf xml xml2 xorg xv xvid zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

post your /etc/conf.d/net and /etc/conf.d/rc files

Created an attachment (id=94666) [details]
/etc/conf.d/net

Created an attachment (id=94667) [details]
/etc/conf.d/rc

Are both net.eth0 and net.eth1 in the default runlevel?

Also, ifplugd is very bad with wireless - use wpa_supplicant instead.

No, I have neither net.eth0 nor net.eth1 in the default runlevel. I thought
that this was not needed.

No, it's not needed. I myself don't have any net.xxx scripts in any runlevel
(except for net.lo).

Is sshd in the default runlevel? Does it work if you use wpa_supplicant to
manage your wireless interface?

Yes, sshd is in the default runlevel. I don't know about wpa_supplicant as I
don't use it.

(In reply to comment #7)
> Yes, sshd is in the default runlevel. I don't know about wpa_supplicant as I
> don't use it.

Have you got wireless-tools installed?

Of course.

So you're using the ifplugd init script?

Created an attachment (id=94771) [details]
/var/log/boot.msg

No, I am not using the ifplugd init script.

net.eth1 is not in any runlevel and is not being picked up by udev/coldplug to
add it to the default runlevel.

Solution - add net.eth1 to the default runlevel.

Adding net.eth1 to the default runlevel makes the situation currently worse for
me: at the time when net.eth1 is started the ipw3945d has not yet been started
(because I currently start it via conf.d/local.start).

Will try again once the ipw3945d issue has been solved.

If ipw3945d creates the actual interface then we have a problem.
At present, ipw3945d doesn't even have an init script to my knowledge.

I think the only viable solution is to add net.eth1 to the default runlevel,
follow the advice in bug #143887 to get net.eth1 to depend on ipw3945d AND -
this is the important part - use wpa_supplicant.

wpa_supplicant is important as it makes net.eth1 re-entrant so it supports the
inactive status. This means that during a normal boot services that require net
will be scheduled to start once a net device becomes active - you are already
seeing this with ifplugd.