Bug 70547 – dhcp and hotplug

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Toralf Förster 2004-11-09 01:12:46 UTC]

There is a problem with hotplug + dhcp + ntp-client.

hotplug starts /etc/init.d/net.eth0 (regardless of being net.eth0 in a runlevel or not) in the background. That's why a line like "need net" in ntp-client has no effect, ntp-client is started before dhcp returns an valid ip adress.
And - if the notebook is not connected to our LAN ntpd is started regardless of having a net or not.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1,
2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/gentoo/
ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.icd.hu/
ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cddb cdparanoia cdr crypt cups
doc dvd dvdr dvdread encode esd ethereal f77 foomaticdb fortran gdbm gifgnome
gpm gtk gtk2 imlib innodb java joystick jpeg kde libg++ libwww live mad mbox
mikmod mmx mmx2 motif mozilla mpeg mysql nagios-dns nagios-ntp nagios-ping
nagios-s ncurses network nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png
python qt quicktime readline rtc samba sdl slang snmp spell sse sse2 sslsvga
tcltk tcpd tetex truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib linguas_de"

tfoerste@nhh221 ~ $ qpkg -I -v -nc basel
sys-apps/baselayout-1.9.4-r6

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2004-11-09 21:54:59 UTC]

so dont use hotplug :p

[Comment 2 Toralf Förster 2004-11-10 00:54:35 UTC]

Yep that's a solution :-}

Fortunately the problem went gone because my 'Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01)' now gets a dhcp after only 4 sec instead of formerly 12-13 sec, I am searching for the reason ...

BTW should this bug report be left open for the principle problem of starting net.eth0 beside the gentoo-start scripts ?  

[Comment 3 Greg Kroah-Hartman (RETIRED) 2004-11-10 11:32:49 UTC]

Nope, not a good reason to keep it open :)

Closing it...

[Comment 4 Roy Marples (RETIRED) 2005-11-09 07:25:30 UTC]

*** Bug 111967 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 5 Roy Marples (RETIRED) 2005-11-13 22:31:54 UTC]

*** Bug 112376 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***