After upgrading from udev-070-r1 to udev-079, my local rule for naming the ethernet interface was no longer processed. This caused other system services that rely on the network interface to fail during system startup. Here is the file /etc/udev/rules.d/00-ethernet.rules: =================================================================== # Gigabyte motherboard ethernet port: # SUBSYSTEM=="net", SYSFS{address}=="00:0d:61:35:17:c9", NAME="lan" # MSI motherboard ethernet port SUBSYSTEM=="net", SYSFS{address}=="00:0c:76:ad:2c:45", NAME="lan" =================================================================== The last line names the interface "lan" instead of the default "eth0". The network start-up is /etc/init.d/net.lan, so reverting to the default name prevents networking. When I reinstalled udev-070-r1 (i.e. masked udev-079 in /etc/portage/package.mask and re-ran emerge) everything worked once more. My emerge info details are: Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2800+ dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r1, 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-mp -mmmx -m3dnow -msse -mfpmath=sse,387 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-mp -mmmx -m3dnow -msse -mfpmath=sse,387 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo ftp://ftp.solnet.ch/mirror/Gentoo" LINGUAS="en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/lib/portage/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X acl ada alsa apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr crypt cups curl doc dvd eds emboss encode esd exif expat f77 fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gcj gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde lcms libg++ libwww lua mad mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly objc odbc ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell sqlite sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev vorbis xine xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib linguas_en_GB userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Don't name this file 00-whatever, you are causing the rule in 05-udev-early.rules to not run yet. Rename the file to 10-* and it should work just fine. If not, please reopen this bug.
