Bug 277473 – sys-apps/openrc-0.4.3-r3 can't handle bridge device named bridge

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Benjamin R. Haskell 2009-07-12 07:24:01 UTC]

openrc doesn't like having a bridge device with the name 'bridge'.  As with bug #277464, it's a problem with 'brctl'.  In this case, openrc's bridge.sh script is reading the output, grep'ing for "^${IFACE}[[:space:]]".  In my case, the output is:

$ brctl show
bridge name     bridge id               STP enabled     interfaces
bridge          8000.001d722ae770       no              wired

Unfortunately, the header line matches when ${IFACE} is 'bridge', causing bridge.sh to think the bridge named 'bridge' is up when it isn't.

[Comment 1 Benjamin R. Haskell 2009-07-12 07:27:00 UTC]

Created attachment 197608 [details, diff]
sys-apps/openrc-0.4.3-r3 patch for bridge named 'bridge'

This patches the net/bridge.sh script to avoid the bug.  I'm not 100% sure 'tail -n +2' is portable, but my sed-fu is nowhere near my perl-fu so I didn't alter the sed commands, and perl seemed like overkill.

[Comment 2 Roy Marples 2009-10-11 15:39:33 UTC]

Hmmm, we need to fix the sed as tail is in /usr ...

[Comment 3 Trevor Summers Smith 2010-01-25 14:33:22 UTC]

Created attachment 217389 [details, diff]
Path for OpenRC to use Bridges named 'bridge' using sed instead of tail

I did not include changes to the ebuild because it seems that given Roy is on this bug the patch is meant for upstream.

I patched this off of commit ecf9ef49a724f6b95039bd760893f51a920f017b. The patch works with OpenRC 0.6.0 as well. Tested with both above commit and OpenRC 0.6.0, using net-misc/bridge-utils-1.4.

Thanks.

[Comment 4 Roy Marples 2010-02-09 17:15:29 UTC]

http://roy.marples.name/projects/openrc/changeset/c0f5f2122c28aa16a45fada0f95743d795be5d53

[Comment 5 William Hubbs 2010-02-10 18:48:33 UTC]

This is fixed upstream, and will be included in the next release of gentoo (current release is 0.6.0-r1).