Bug 79991

Summary:	net.lo and net.eth0 fail to start
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Justus Ranvier <gentoo>
Component:	[OLD] baselayout	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Justus Ranvier 2005-01-29 13:05:16 UTC

I've built a new system using baselayout-1.11.8 and I can not get network functionality. net.lo gives the following error message: "no interface module loaded" net.eth0 fails with "apipa: missing function interface_exists".

I've re-emerged baselayout and run etc-update to verify that net.lo is the correct version. I use a monolithic kernel so there aren't any network modules to load.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Justus Ranvier 2005-01-29 14:06:55 UTC

I found the problem: when I initially ran "emerge system", net-tools never got emerged! I think the missing ifconfig program caused the error. Based on what "emerge -e system" is downloading, quite a few packages never got installed in the first place.

Comment 2 Roy Marples (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-30 10:51:45 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 79257 ***