It seems that the baselayout 1.11.15-r3 changed the network initialization order. An error message (red color of the * emulated by ***) now appears during the boot: * Configuring kernel parameters ... [ ok ] * Updating environment ... [ ok ] * Cleaning /var/lock, /var/run ... [ ok ] * Cleaning /tmp directory ... [ ok ] * Device initiated services: net.eth0 * Loading ALSA modules ... * Loading: snd-card-0 ... [ ok ] * Restoring Mixer Levels ... [ ok ] * Loading key mappings ... [ ok ] * Setting terminal encoding to ASCII ... [ ok ] * Setting user font ... [ ok ] *** net.eth0: cannot start until the runlevel boot has completed * Starting lo * Bringing up lo ... [ ok ] * Initializing random number generator ... [ ok ] INIT: Entering runlevel: 3 * Starting metalog ... [ ok ] * Starting eth0 * Bringing up eth0 * 10.76.253.20 [ ok ] * Adding routes * default gw 10.76.253.2 ... [ ok ] * samba -> start: smbd ... [ ok ] * samba -> start: nmbd ... [ ok ] This error is not fatal. Nonetheless, it wasn't there before and my configuration hasn't changed otherwise. I therefore suspect the baselayout update. Thanks, Jan
disable your cold/hot plug stuff and it should work fine
or upgrade to baselayout-1.12 where you can start net.eth0 in the boot runlevel.
(In reply to comment #1) > disable your cold/hot plug stuff and it should work fine > I don't have any coldplug script but I did disable the hotplug one. The problem is still present though. Network script is in the default level where it belongs, as far as I can tell, but something else is attempting to bring it up during the boot level. Here is the listing of "rc-config list" output: erbelix ~ # rc-config list Available init scripts alsasound boot apache2 default bootmisc boot checkfs boot checkroot boot clock boot consolefont boot crypto-loop cupsd default domainname default esound famd gpm default hdparm hostname boot hotplug keymaps boot lisa local default nonetwork localmount boot modules boot mysql default net.eth0 default net.lo boot netmount default nscd ntp-client ntpd default numlock portmap pwcheck reslisa rmnologin boot rsyncd samba default saslauthd serial boot sshd default syslog-ng default urandom boot vixie-cron default vmware default xdm default
The solution seems to be editing the /etc/conf.d/rc file and setting RC_COLDPLUG="yes" RC_PLUG_SERVICES="!net.*" Not sure if this is documented somewhere or why the original default settings produce the reported problem. In any case, there are no apperent ill side-efects to this so perhaps it should be the default setting.
