baselayout-1.12.0_pre11-r1 always fails the "iproute2_is_up with address" check when it is passed the "true" parameter. Looking at the function makes it clear why: iproute2_is_up() { local check="\<UP\>" addr="${2:-false}" ${addr} && check="${check}.*inet " ip addr show "$1" | grep -Eq "${check}" && return 0 return 1 } Taking for example eth0, this results in ip addr show eth0 | grep -Eq "\<UP\>.*inet" && return 0 Well, $ /sbin/ip addr show eth0 3: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000 link/ether 00:11:2f:d6:2a:bd brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 10.0.0.2/24 brd 10.0.0.255 scope global eth0 inet 10.0.0.12/24 brd 10.0.0.255 scope global secondary eth0 inet6 2001:240:516:1::2/64 scope global valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 fe80::211:2fff:fed6:2abd/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever However, grep -e "\<UP\>.*inet" never matches, since "inet" is not mentioned on the same line where UP is mentioned. An ugly workaround is to modify the test like this: echo $(ip addr show "$1") | ... This is a showstopper for a diskless station where the initscript currently assumes that the interface is not up and tries to remove all addresses before bringing it up which in turn makes everything fail after the addresses disappear and the communication with the NFS server is lost.
Using xargs also work - fixed in pre11-r2
