Bug 113375 – services with "need net" won't start if ethernet is not working

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description crusaderky 2005-11-23 10:37:10 UTC]

I've got a laptop with a PCMCIA ethernet card, which may or may not be plugged
in. net.eth0 is started as a "default" service and, when the card is unplugged,
it obviously fails.

However, when I try to start apache-2.0.54-r31 (but I assume you'll have the
same problem with any other service with the "need net" dependency) the script
will try to bring net.eth0 up, it will fail, and consequently refuse to start
apache2.

Expected behaviour: I have net.lo already running, and that should be
sufficient. There's no need for net.eth0.

Workaround: use "use net" instead of "need net" - I'm not 100% sure of the
consequences, though.

[Comment 1 crusaderky 2005-11-23 10:39:32 UTC]

# emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2,
2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
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:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i586-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium2 -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -falign-functions=4"
CHOST="i586-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/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="-Os -march=pentium2 -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -falign-functions=4"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache digest distcc distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms
strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/
ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/
ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/
ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/"
LANG="it_IT@euro"
LINGUAS="it"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X adns alsa apache2 apm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 crypt
cups curl dga dvb eds emboss encode erandom ethereal exif expat fbcon ffmpeg
firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm ggi gif ginac glut gmp gpm gstreamer gtk
gtk2 idn imlib ipv6 java jpeg kerberos lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libwww lzo mad
matroska mhash mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses network nls
no_wxgtk1 nptl offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pdflib perl pic plotutils
png python qhull quicktime readline real recode rtc samba sdl skey slang snmp
spell ssl svg tcpd tga theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts
udev vorbis win32codecs xine xml2 xv xvid xvmc zlib linguas_it userland_GNU
kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-11-23 10:48:35 UTC]

Well, sorry but this is not a bug, but intended behaviour... If you need
something different, then set up RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING in /etc/conf.d/rc
accordingly.