It seems baselayout creates the replacement file for net.eth0 as a symlink to net.lo so if you overwrite the current net.eth0 it becomes a symlink to net.lo. After a reboot the only network interface I had configured was lo. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge baselayout-1.11.13-r1 2. ls -l /etc/init.d/._* Actual Results: You can see /etc/init.d/._cfg0000_net.eth0 -> net.lo Expected Results: This should be a file, not a symlink. Now I was testing the behavior on this machine so some of this stuff will be a bit out of date. Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11.5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11.5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU family 1133MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Mar 28 2005, 11:53:22)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2, 2.4.19-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 alsa apache2 berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt eds emboss foomaticdb fortran gd gif gstreamer ipv6 java jpeg libg++ libwww mmx motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses ogg opengl pam pdflib png python readline samba spell sse ssl tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml2 xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
no, net.eth0 should be a symlink now, not a net.lo
Well that's just weird. After reading your comment I went back to the computer I just upgraded baselayout on and it actually has the correct net.lo in the update. For some reason on the other computers baselayout was updated on, it didn't replace net.lo so it set every device up as 127.0.0.1. Sorry for the bug report, I'll look back on the other computers to see if I can figure out where I or it went wrong. Thanks for the quick response.
