Bug 439572 – =sys-apps/openrc-0.11.1 rc_lo_provide="net" message does not provide a workaround for need net

• Product: Gentoo Hosted Projects
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Matthew Schultz 2012-10-24 21:16:01 UTC]

=sys-apps/openrc-0.11.1 rc_lo_provide="net" message does not provide a workaround for need net.  I tried specifying rc_lo_provide="net" in either /etc/conf.d/net or /etc/conf.d/network and it did not allow sshd, snmpd, ntp-client or syslog-ng to start.  The machine that this workaround did not work on is using a root nfs network filesystem so therefore net.lo and net.eth0 are already provided and are not started by openrc.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 William Hubbs 2012-10-25 17:12:49 UTC]

Try this:

For each service that doesn't start, append this line to
/etc/conf.d/<service>, and if that doesn't exist, create the file and
add this line:

rc_need="!net"

For more information, see this blog post:

http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2012/10/may-i-have-a-network-connection-please

[Comment 2 Matthew Schultz 2012-10-25 17:52:32 UTC]

That workaround actually works albeit, I think it's less work just to remove the need net line from the init script.  You should update the ebuild log message to reflect this different workaround.

[Comment 3 William Hubbs 2012-11-06 03:44:41 UTC]

This is updated in OpenRC-0.11.4.