Bug 144876 – baselayout 1.12.4-r7 breaks my network

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description George Cox 2006-08-23 10:14:44 UTC]

This bug is being made from my winblowz box, so I can't copy and paste my specific info and config files...  if needed, I will do my best to be verbatim.

I ran an emerge -auvD world this morning, baselayout and ktorrent were the only updates.  The documentation at the end of baselayout said to run an etc-update and update, I also removed my init.d/net.eth1 and symlinked it to net.lo

After the update portage didn't inform me that any config files needed updating, but I ran etc-update anyway as habbit, and it reported nothing needed updating.  !?

I rebooted and tried to ssh, telnet and cygwin/X back into the box, with no luck.  So I hooked my monitor and spare keyboard to the box, and found the network unreachable.  

During startup it reports that eth1 comes up just fine, but it tries to set the default route and then 'destination network unreachable'

from a command prompt, ifconfig reports the standard info, proper ip, interface up, etc.  but if I try to 'route add default gw 192.168.1.1' it errors unreachable, as well as if I try to ping any ip other than the local ip.

No edits have been made to any config.

I untared the baselayout package and copied net.lo as other bugs claimed the packages were not updating properly, but that didn't effect anything.  I ran an 'emerge --oneshot --noconfmem baselayout' as was suggested in another bug, again same results.

eth0 is disabled due to a buggy 3com card.  Eth1 is a tulip module card that with the proper kernel module has run perfectly every time and appears to be working properly now as well, as reported by ifconfig.

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-08-23 11:50:17 UTC]

How about attaching your /etc/conf.d/net? Or, are we supposed to guess?

[Comment 2 George Cox 2006-08-23 12:07:02 UTC]

OK

config_eth0=( "null" )
config_eth1=( "192.168.1.2" )

routes_eth1=( "default gw 192.168.1.1" )

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-08-23 12:10:18 UTC]

*** Bug 144899 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 4 Chris Mayo 2006-08-23 12:24:47 UTC]

How about:

routes_eth1=( "default via 192.168.1.1" )

[Comment 5 George Cox 2006-08-23 12:28:28 UTC]

I made that change, did a /etc/init.d/net.eth1 restart

when it applies the routing I get the same error:

RTNETLINK answers: Network is unreachable

[Comment 6 Chris Mayo 2006-08-23 12:44:39 UTC]

missing netmask??:

config_eth1=( "192.168.1.2/24" )

[Comment 7 George Cox 2006-08-23 12:48:55 UTC]

GENIUS!!!

I'm supprised that would break from r6 to r7 of baselayout, that was the only change.

Thanks!

Gentoo ROCKS!