I was trying to start an ssh server, so I did: /etc/init.d/sshd start Unfortunately all I got was a blinking cursor. So I upgraded openssh to the newest ~amd versions. Now it said "Caching service dependencies" and then the same thing: nothing. Commenting out "need net" from the script allows it to run. I did have networking, but I started it manually without using the scripts. Anyway, an error message should have been produced, instead of failing without error. Maybe "need net" should even be removed entirely.
you should post more information with your bug reports: - `emerge info` - /etc/conf.d/net what does "a blinking cursor" ? does it mean you got no output at all from the init.d script ?
blinking cursor means zero output other then a newline and a blinking cursor and that I don't get a prompt back. Either it is doing nothing or waiting for something or looping. /etc/conf.d/net is only comments. This is a quite new install and almost everything is also still in default 2006.1 amd64stage3 state. Portage 2.1.2_pre1 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.18 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.1 Last Sync: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:00:08 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r3 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 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: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" 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" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 berkdb bitmap-fonts cli crypt cups dlloader dri elibc_glibc fortran gdbm gpm input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog kernel_linux libg++ ncurses nls nptl nptlonly pam pcre perl ppds pppd python readline reflection session spl ssl tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_apm video_cards_ark video_cards_ati video_cards_chips video_cards_cirrus video_cards_cyrix video_cards_dummy video_cards_fbdev video_cards_glint video_cards_i128 video_cards_i810 video_cards_mga video_cards_neomagic video_cards_nv video_cards_rendition video_cards_s3 video_cards_s3virge video_cards_savage video_cards_siliconmotion video_cards_sis video_cards_sisusb video_cards_tdfx video_cards_tga video_cards_trident video_cards_tseng video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_via video_cards_vmware video_cards_voodoo xorg zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
You cannot start networking manually and except init script dependencies to see this. What net scripts do you have in your runlevels and what are the values of RC_STRICT_NET_CHECKING and RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP in /etc/conf.d/net? Lastly, do any net services report their status as starting/inactive in rc-status?
RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING="no" RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP="no" in rc-status I only have started and stopped services. I had net.eth1 script in default but the interface was not connected. I started net.wlan0 manually.
This should be fixed in baselayout-1.13.0_alpha11. Re-open if you disagree.
