| Summary: | bootmisc starts sysctl early in the boot process. "unknown key" problem. | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Andrea Carpani <ml> |
| Component: | [OLD] baselayout | Assignee: | Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | x86 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
add said modules to your modules.autoload files or build the drivers into your kernel |
/etc/init.d/bootmisc starts sysctl at an early stage of the boot process and at that time some keys are not yet available. In my case I had to set net.ipv4.conf.lo.arp_ignore=1 but net.ipv4.conf.lo is not available before loopback. I solved this particular issue by adding the same code from bootmisc to local.start: if [ -e /etc/sysctl.conf ] then ebegin "Configuring kernel parameters" /sbin/sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf &>/dev/null eend 0 fi Maybe this calls for an extra init script? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. put net.ipv4.conf.lo.arp_ignore=1 in /etc/sysctl.conf 2. reboot 3. check "sysctl net.ipv4.conf.lo.arp_ignore" Actual Results: root # sysctl net.ipv4.conf.lo.arp_ignore net.ipv4.conf.lo.arp_ignore = 0 Expected Results: root # sysctl net.ipv4.conf.lo.arp_ignore net.ipv4.conf.lo.arp_ignore = 1