Bug 286456 – net-misc/dhcpcd - /etc/init.d/net.eth0 fails with spurious error

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Michael Mounteney 2009-09-25 20:57:29 UTC]

oot@pimple:~# /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start
net.eth0         |* Bringing up interface eth0
net.eth0         |*   dhcp...
net.eth0         |*     Running dhcpcd...
net.eth0         |dhcpcd: unknown otpion `-m'                             [ !! ]
net.eth0         |*   Trying fallback configuration 192.168.1.55
net.eth0         |*   192.168.1.55...                                     [ ok ]
net.eth0         |*   Adding routes
net.eth0         |*     default via alstoe...                             [ ok ]
root@pimple:~# cat /etc/conf.d/net
config_eth0="dhcp"
routes_eth0="default via alstoe"
dhcpcd_eth0="-t 14 -L -N"
fallback_eth0="192.168.1.55 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 192.168.1.255"
fallback_route_eth0="default gw alstoe"
config_wlan0="dhcp"

modules="wpa_supplicant"
wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dwext"
wpa_timeout_wlan0=15

(various key_network lines omitted)
root@pimple:~# emerge --info      
Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.1, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.30-tuxonice-r5-C i686)                                                      
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System uname: Linux-2.6.30-tuxonice-r5-C-i686-AMD_Turion-tm-_64_Mobile_Technology_MT-30-with-gentoo-2.0.1                                                       
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:25:01 +0000                              
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]                                                    
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p33                                                    
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1                                                  
dev-lang/python:     2.6.2-r2, 3.1.1-r1                                         
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r8                                                     
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4-r2                                                   
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1                                                      
sys-apps/openrc:     0.4.3-r3                                                   
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.1                                                        
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.63-r1                                                    
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11                           
sys-devel/binutils:  2.19.1-r1                                                  
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1                                                     
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a                                                     
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1                                                  
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"                                                      
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"                                                      
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -msse3 -fomit-frame-pointer"                        
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"                                                       
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config"                                         
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"                                    
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe -msse3 -fomit-frame-pointer"                      
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"                                                
FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"                                           
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.swin.edu.au/gentoo ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo http://ftp.swin.edu.au/gentoo " 
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"                                                               
LINGUAS="en uk"                                                                 
MAKEOPTS="-j4 -s"                                                               
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"                                                  
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"                                                          
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"                                                  
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"                                                       
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"                                                          
SYNC="rsync://rsync.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"                               
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl acpi alsa avahi berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups dbus disk-partition doc dri dts dvd dvdr eds embedded emboss encode esd evo fam firefox flac fortran gdbm gif glibc-omitfp gpm gstreamer hal iconv isdnlog jadetex java jpeg kde kontact kpathsea laptop ldap libnotify mad mikmod mmap mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg msn mudflap ncurses networkmanager nls npp nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp oscar pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection ruby sdl semantic-desktop session slang spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd threads thunar tiff truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vim-syntax vorbis win32codecs x264 x86 xcomposite xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="atiixp" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en uk" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon ati vesa vga"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2009-10-10 07:58:28 UTC]

Please attach your /etc/init.d/net.eth0

[Comment 2 Michael Mounteney 2009-10-10 18:20:00 UTC]

Created attachment 206697 [details]
network eth0 startup script

Attached as requested.

[Comment 3 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2009-10-10 23:50:03 UTC]

Reopne and assigned to maintainer.
Where does the type come from "otpion"?

[Comment 4 Roy Marples 2010-04-15 16:17:53 UTC]

Missed this somehow. What dhcpcd version do you have installed? All should support the -m option.

[Comment 5 Michael Mounteney 2010-04-15 19:40:08 UTC]

It occurs with dhcpcd 5.2.2 but the error occurs when in /etc/conf.d/net, the dhcpcd_eth0 line contains -N.  Yes, capital N.  I've removed that now and dhcpcd is now working (thank you) but there is still a spurious and misleading error report (as well as a typo) with the -N argument.  My /etc/conf.d/net line now reads:

dhcpcd_eth0="-t 5 -b -L"

and previously:

dhcpcd_eth0="-t 5 -L -N"

[Comment 6 Dennis Schridde 2013-02-06 20:03:02 UTC]

Is this still valid?

[Comment 7 Michael Mounteney 2013-04-27 09:44:23 UTC]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Is this still valid?

It's all fixed now, thank you.