after emerging baselayout 1.12.4 on two of my servers they show the same wired behavour when booting: the messages looks like this: ERROR: can not start netmount as net.eth0 could not start in fact - eth0 is up and has the configured settings after boot. but the machine failed to mount her nfs-filesystems the funny thing is that other services depending on eth0 start up properly: ntp-client, ntpd, net-snmpd, sshd when you login you cam then manually start /etc/init.d/netmount without problems etc-update is done on this boxes. i set up /etc/conf.d/net hopefully in the right way my /etc/conf.d/net from on of the servers (the other is similar, just with an other ip-adress): config_eth0=( "192.168.200.200 broadcast 192.168.200.255 netmask 255.255.255.0" ) routes_eth0=( "default via 192.168.200.10" ) nis_domain_eth0="my-private-thing" nis_servers_eth0="192.168.200.11" the problem began with -r2, after a few days i emerged -r4 und yesterday also -r6. the problem still exists for server-guys this problem is really a nightmare
What runlevel are net.eth0 and netmount in? Is net.eth0 a symlink to net.lo? Are you running parallel startup? Could you attach a bootlog to this bug?
uberlord: Ensure that your modules = ("[ifconfig|iproute2]") configuration line isn't commented out? I have no idea how, but it appears that that particular line in my /etc/conf.d/net file was modified between when I rebooted last (2-3 days ago), upgraded baselayout, and now. I have no idea how it occurred, but when I uncommented that line and emerged iproute2 (ifconfig didn't work any more for some odd reason), it created the proper file in /lib/rcscripts/net for ifconfig and iproute2, and now stuff just works =\...
Until you can attach a non function config and bootlog I'm closing this as worksforme.
Found the solution to my issue. Turns out that my issue was caused by uncommenting this line in the /etc/conf.d/net example file: #set dhcp_ESSID="nodns
Created attachment 94530 [details] this is the bootlog as shown by dmesg on the machine here also my /etc/conf.d/net : config_eth0=( "192.168.200.200 broadcast 192.168.200.255 netmask 255.255.255.0" ) routes_eth0=( "default via 192.168.200.10" ) nis_domain_eth0="something-private" nis_servers_eth0="192.168.200.11"
i also tested a boot with the following additional line in my /etc/conf.d/net : modules=( "ifconfig" ) it doesn't change anything the behavour when booting is still the same reading the documentation in the example-file i think this line is optional and not mandatory neccesary from my point of view there must be a problem in net.lo. it seens, that it does not propagate the startup of an interface correctly to all depending services.
