bridge utils initscript fails to start with some errors when using a bridge name with the '-' char, like xen-br0. it is allways reproducible on bridge-utils 0.9.6-r1 and below. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. edit /etc/conf.d/bridge 2. add line bridge="xen-br0" 3. add line bridge_xen-br0_interfaces="eth1" 4. run /etc/init.d/bridge restart Actual Results: xen ~ # /etc/init.d/bridge restart /etc/conf.d/bridge: line 10: bridge_xen-br0_devices=eth1: command not found * Create Bridge xen-br0 ... interface br0_devices does not exist! SIOCSIFADDR: No such device br0_devices: unknown interface: No such device br0_devices: unknown interface: No such device * Failed to set up interface br0_devices [ !! ] xen ~ # Expected Results: xen ~ # /etc/init.d/bridge start * Create Bridge xen-br0 ... brctl can perfectly handle bridge names with dashes on them, which makes me think this is a bug in the initscript parser or such. somehow the initscript seems to see xen-br0 as br0 on the bridge_xen-br0_devices configuration line. couldn't test more recent versions of the bridge-utils, but I'll be able to do so next week. xen ~ # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.200 41102-r1, 2.6.11.10-xen0 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11.10-xen0 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Jun 9 2005, 15:53:49)] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -O2" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X1 1/xkb /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=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -O2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.rnl.ist.utl.pt/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://ftp.rnl.ist.utl.pt/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acl acpi apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzlib cpdflib crypt cscope ctype cups curl emboss encode fam foomaticdb fortran freetype ftp gd gdb m gif gmp gpm gtk gtk2 iconv imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg libedit libg++ lib www mad mhash mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss p am pdflib perl php plotutils png python quicktime readline sdl snmp spell sse ss l svga tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml xml2 xmms xpm xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLA Y xen ~ #
the init scripts for the old bridge-utils are deprecated. please use the stuff with the new baselayout. the old packages will be going away soon (as soon as sysfsutils-1.2 goes stable).
"the init scripts for the old bridge-utils are deprecated." sorry, don't follow. the currently stable are actually old and deprecated? "please use the stuff with the new baselayout." I think I already am. "the old packages will be going away soon (as soon as sysfsutils-1.2 goes stable)." you mean after sysfsutils-1.2 goes stable baselayout will be updated into 1.12.0?
baselayout-1.11 has it's own support for bridging, without needing /etc/init.d/bridge. The new bridge-utils links against >sysfsutils-1.0, so sysfutils needs to be stable before bridge-utils can go stable. I've put a 0.9.6-r2 into the tree as stable on x86 also telling users to use the new baselayout stuff. For the new baselayout stuff, it's entirely in /etc/conf.d/net and /etc/init.d/net.$DEVICE /etc/{conf,init}.d/bridge is not used anymore at all.
