Using gnap-1.8.2: If you turn on remote logging in syslog-ng.conf in your overlay, the syslog-ng init script gets a "need net" dependency to have the network configured before logging is started (see /etc/init.d/syslog-ng, function depend()). However this makes the net.* init scripts run before autoconfig has run; so network configuration fails because the net devices aren't there yet. For some reason, this happens, even though the autoconfig init script has a "before net" dependency. I don't know why the "before net" dependency doesn't work for me... But wouldn't it be less troublesome to put the autoconfig service into the boot runlevel (maybe with an "after *" dependency)? How to reproduce: mkdir -p myoverlay/etc/syslog-ng cat >myoverlay/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf << EOF options { chain_hostnames(off); sync(0); stats(43200); }; source src { unix-stream("/dev/log"); internal(); pipe("/proc/kmsg"); }; destination messages { file("/var/log/messages"); }; log { source(src); destination(messages); }; destination console { file("/dev/tty12"); }; log { source(src); destination(console); }; destination loghost { udp("111.222.333.444" port(514)); }; log { source(src); destination(loghost); }; EOF echo "NBCARDS=1" >myoverlay/etc/overlay.conf gnap_overlay -o myoverlay -i myoverlay.iso qemu -cdrom myoverlay.iso After "INIT: Entering runlevel: 3", you'll notice that net.eth0 is started (and fails with "eth0 does not exist"), followed by syslog-ng (which also fails), and autoconfig (which finally detects the network card)
Interesting :) Can't change it in a release candidate phase, but I'll try to find a good solution for 2.0.1 afterwards.
I had some similar issues when adding Asterisk to the mix. Uberlord helped debug the problem and the fixes are now in the latest ~x86 baselayout (not sure wether it is stable yet but it works fine on my boxen).
I tried gnap-2.0 from portage today and it seems like the bug still exists. Does anybody know how to fix or workaround this?
I get the problem because syslog needs network, network starts after iptables and iptables needs syslog. This is on normal Gentoo though, using openrc, but maybe it's the same. I removed the dependency on syslog from iptables.
The GNAP project has been discontinued, its removal was acknowledged by steev. If you need to, you can contact the Gentoo Embedded project; more information about the Gentoo Embedded project can be found on the following link: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/ This removal happens as part of project cleanup by the Gentoo Council's members.
