Booting with the new baselayout (at home, no router, I connect to the internet using a DSL modem and rppppoek) and the following setting : RC_COLDPLUG="no" RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING="no" lets the boot process hang while starting cupsd. I have an USB printer attached to the 2nd USB port of my hinkpad T41. At this point the USB mouse is also not working. Fortunately I can login b/c kdm is started, no other login option is possible at this point. With RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING="none" the eth0 network is not brought up - with old baselayout I got at least a static ip address at home. here's the network config: n22 /etc/conf.d # cat /etc/conf.d/net # /etc/conf.d/net # config_eth0=( "dhcp" "192.168.0.254/24" ) dhcpcd_eth0="-t 6" dhcp_eth0="nontp" Setting RC_COLDPLUG="yes" I can boot my system without any obviously problems and have: n22 /etc/conf.d # ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:60:7B:2D:9B inet addr:192.168.0.254 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3914 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:316 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:518995 (506.8 Kb) TX bytes:39104 (38.1 Kb) Base address:0x8000 Memory:c0240000-c0260000 n22 /etc/conf.d # emerge --info Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.icis.pcz.pl/gentoo/ http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/" LINGUAS="de en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac acpi alsa apache2 arts asf avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 clamav cli crypt css cups dlloader dri dvd emboss encode exif fam fastbuild ffmpeg foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 isdnlog jai java javascript jimi joystick jpeg kde libg++ libwww live logrotate mad mbox mikmod mmx mmxext motif mozsvg mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nsplugin ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdf pdflib perl png pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline real reflection rtc rtsp samba sdl session slp snmp spell spl sse sse2 ssl subversion svg tcltk tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userlocales vorbis win32codecs xanim xml xorg xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux linguas_de linguas_en userland_GNU video_cards_vga video_cards_radeon" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
With the following setting the "old" working behaviour is restored: tfoerste@n22 ~ $ grep -e ^RC_COLD -e ^RC_HOT -e ^RC_PL /etc/conf.d/rc RC_HOTPLUG="yes" RC_COLDPLUG="no" RC_PLUG_SERVICES="!net.eth0" During boot process I can see the message that net.eth0 is starting, after 6 seconds it DHCPCD times out and a static address is assigned to that adapter. After that the normal boot process continues (starting dnsmasq, apache2, snort, ....)
so what sort of kernel configuration do you have ? are those things built as kernel modules ?
Created attachment 94113 [details] kernel config Right, built as much as possible as modules. I attached my kernel config here. Here are my init levels: tfoerste@n22 ~ $ rc-status boot Runlevel: boot modules [ started ] checkroot [ started ] rmnologin [ started ] consolefont [ started ] checkfs [ started ] bootmisc [ started ] hostname [ started ] localmount [ started ] net.lo [ started ] coldplug [ started ] serial [ started ] keymaps [ started ] urandom [ started ] clock [ started ] tfoerste@n22 ~ $ rc-status default Runlevel: default sshd [ started ] local [ started ] net.eth0 [ started ] xdm [ started ] netmount [ stopped ] vixie-cron [ started ] syslog-ng [ started ] mysql [ started ] acpid [ started ] smartd [ started ] cupsd [ started ] apache2 [ started ] klive [ started ] alsasound [ started ] dnetc [ started ] kmyfirewall [ started ] sendmail [ started ] ntpd [ stopped ] clamd [ started ] dnsmasq [ started ] lisa [ stopped ] snort [ started ]
so let me see ... you have devices hooked up at boot, you have coldplugging turned off, you have your kernel built as modules, and you're wondering why things arent working ? the point of coldplugging is to detect all the devices you had plugged in already and load the modules for them
(In reply to comment #4) > so let me see ... you have devices hooked up at boot, you have coldplugging > turned off, you have your kernel built as modules, and you're wondering why > things arent working ? With the old baselayout I had RC_COLDPLUG="no" without any problems, that's why I used the same value for the new one. > the point of coldplugging is to detect all the devices you had plugged in > already and load the modules for them Right, I've turned it on now. My actual problem is to reproduce the behaviour that the boot process doesn't continue after cupsd. (Un)fortunatly it's currently working (I'm not happy about an issue which cannot be reproduced. I'll close this bug until I can reproduce the hang on the boot process.
