Bug 61594 – [PATCH] /sbin/rc brings down net.eth0 by mistake after initial runlevel

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andreas Sundebo 2004-08-24 20:34:12 UTC]

If I autoload a network module in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 and hotplug starts the service, /sbin/rc will try to stop it, because it sees net.eth0 in as a 'started' service which apparently noone uses.

This is due to a bug in the dep_stop function in /sbin/rc, see the patch below which fixes it.

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Andreas Sundebo 2004-08-24 20:35:52 UTC]

Created attachment 38140 [details, diff]
rc-dep_stop-fix.diff

[Comment 2 Michael Kefeder 2004-09-25 06:15:26 UTC]

I can confirm this behaviour. I run kernel 2.6, hotplug and use /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 for my NICs driver. It's quite frustrating when you have cifs and nfs mountpoints in fstab and the network doesn't come up while booting... After I applied this patch, network starts and works as expected.

Andreas - thanks for figuring this out, i never would have found out that /sbin/rc causes the trouble.

[Comment 3 Paolo Ornati 2004-12-05 01:22:07 UTC]

I can confirm this behaviour, the patch _FIXES_ the problem also for me.

[Comment 4 Roy Marples (RETIRED) 2004-12-09 10:13:35 UTC]

Fixed in CVS - will be in baselayout-1.11.8

[Comment 5 Roy Marples (RETIRED) 2004-12-17 02:33:48 UTC]

Baselayout-1.11.8 is out