Bug 51234 – ifplugd-0.24 fails to start eth0

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description teidakankan 2004-05-16 15:47:43 UTC]

output of /usr/sbin/ifplugstatus lists eth0 as "unplugged"

Problem may be associated with this version's link checking support order.  From the author's version 0.24 notes on his website:

"Version 0.24 released, changes include: add IFF_RUNNING link check support and make it the default. This might break some setups. You may workaround this by passing -m to the daemon for selecting a different API. Please report breakages!"

I fixed my problem by installing his current version 0.25 release.  All I did was change the version number in the 0.24 ebuild.

His notes concerning the 0.25 version allude to this potential problem:

"Version 0.25 released, changes include: Revert to more classic link checking support. The new checking order is: ETHTOOL, MII, WLAN, IFF. The obsolete API "PRIV" is no longer checked by the automatic API detection code. However, you may enable it forcibly by passing -m priv on the command line."

Reproducible: Always
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hist:505 cmnd:5 jobs:0 # emerge info
Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.5-gentoo-r1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.10
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usb_hd/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.gg3.net/ http://ftp.gentoo.or.kr/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.asia.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aalib acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dvd encode esd
foomaticdb gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde libg++ libwww
mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg nas ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib
perl png python qt quicktime readline scanner sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk
tcpd truetype usb x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2004-05-18 08:08:07 UTC]

added 0.25 in cvs