Strange things happen when the atm/ethernet bridge br2684ctl is started under baselayout-2.0.0/openrc-0.2.2. - during boot br2684ctl fails with br2684ctl[2425]: Interface "nas0" created sucessfully br2684ctl[2425]: Communicating over ATM 0.8.35, encapsulation: LLC br2684ctl[2425]: Fatal: failed to connect on socket; No such device ----- doing /etc/init.d/net.nas0 restart after boot (after the error above) results in an infinite loop like Apr 29 17:20:59 numa-be br2684ctl[18306]: Killed by a signal Apr 29 17:20:59 numa-be br2684ctl[18306]: Daemon terminated Apr 29 17:21:00 numa-be br2684ctl[18398]: Interface "nas0" created sucessfully Apr 29 17:21:00 numa-be br2684ctl[18398]: Communicating over ATM 0.8.35, encapsulation: LLC Apr 29 17:21:00 numa-be br2684ctl[18398]: Interface configured Apr 29 17:21:00 numa-be br2684ctl[18398]: RFC 1483/2684 bridge daemon started Apr 29 17:21:02 numa-be br2684ctl[18398]: Killed by a signal and so on. --------------- Doing instead /etc/init.d/net.nas0 stop /etc/init.d/net.nas0 start DOES work (and there is no loop) --- Needless to say, this has worked here for more than 18 months with baselayout-1.x. Furthermore net-misc/br2684ctl hasn't changed for a long time. Thanks for shedding some light into this mystery! Reproducible: Always emerge --info Portage 2.1.5_rc6 (default-linux/x86/2007.0, gcc-4.2.3, glibc-2.7-r2, 2.6.25-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.25-gentoo-r1 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Timestamp of tree: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:16:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.2.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.25-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/NX/etc /usr/NX/home /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo " LDFLAGS="" LINGUAS="en de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.informatik.RWTH-Aachen.de/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl alsa atm berkdb cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups doc dri dvd fortran gdbm gif gimp gnome gpm gtk iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde lcms midi mmx mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python qt qt4 readline reflection session spl sqlite sqlite3 sse ssl svg tcl tcpd tetex tiff tk unicode x86 xorg xulrunner zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ens1371" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse wacom" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
uberlaptop ~ # br2684ctl -c 0 -a 0.34 br2684ctl[29193]: Interface "nas0" created sucessfully br2684ctl[29193]: Communicating over ATM 0.0.34, encapsulation: LLC br2684ctl[29193]: Fatal: failed to connect on socket; No such device uberlaptop ~ # br2684ctl -c 0 -a 0.34 br2684ctl[29311]: Interface "nas0" could not be created, reason: File exists br2684ctl[29311]: Communicating over ATM 0.0.34, encapsulation: LLC br2684ctl[29311]: Fatal: failed to connect on socket; No such device Looks like a br2684 or kernel issue and not openrc Adding net-dialup and kernel team for comments. I'm using gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r1
upgrading to openrc-0.2.3 fixes the bug!
