Bug 107934 – dhcpcd fails from initscript with error about function interface_is_up

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description Nicholas Stultz 2005-10-02 15:24:19 UTC]

When the computer boots, it attempts to run /etc/init.d/net.eth0, which fails 
with the message "dhcpcd: missing required function interface_is_up".

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run /etc/init.d/net.eth0

Actual Results:  
Output:
* Starting eth0
*       dhcpcd: missing required function interface_is_up

Expected Results:  
net.eth0 starts successfully.

emerge --info gives:

Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.
12.5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12.5 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2700+
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/
share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/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="-mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http:/
/gentoo.seren.com/gentoo http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts canna cdparanoia cdr cjk crypt 
curl divx4linux doc dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode examples fam 
ffmpeg foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glut gpm gstreamer gtk2 imlib ipv6 java 
jpeg junit kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mime mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql 
ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime 
readline sdl spell ssl symlink tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-
fonts unicode usb v4l vorbis win32codecs xine xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU 
kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Nicholas Stultz 2005-10-02 15:27:32 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)


One more thing I somehow forget mention before I submitted this bug is that my 
ethernet card uses the via-rhine chipset, compiled into the kernel.

[Comment 2 Roy Marples (RETIRED) 2005-10-05 03:46:08 UTC]

Try this

emerge --oneshot net-tools