Using 1.12.0_pre10-r1 I get these messages on booting. * Starting eth0 * Starting ifplugd on eth0 ... [ ok ] * Backgrounding ... * ERROR: Problem starting needed services. * identd was not started. * ERROR: Problem starting needed services. * ntp-client was not started. * Starting sshd ... [ ok ] * Starting vixie-cron ... [ ok ] * Skipping /usr/kde/3.4/bin/kdm, received 'nox' * Starting xinetd ... [ ok ] * Starting local ... [ ok ] This is imogen.csnet (Linux i686 2.6.14-rc4-mm1) 14:12:51 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot the machine with services relying on networking being active. 2. 3. Expected Results: Bootup scripts should wait until network is fully initialised before attempting to start services which are dependent on the network working. Running on an R40 ThinkPad.
post your /etc/conf.d/net file
The command grep -v '^#' /etc/conf.d/net | grep -v ^$ - produces the non-comment, non-blank lines thus:- modules=( "ifconfig" ) config_eth0=( "192.168.2.12/26 brd 192.168.2.63" ) routes_eth0=( "default via 192.168.2.62" ) These are the only non-comment lines in my /etc/conf.d/net file. Yes it is a quarter of a C net because the rest is being set up as a VPN.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 112088 ***