The stop() function in /etc/init.d/vde contains the lines [ "${VDE_MODPROBE_TUN}" == "yes" ] && modprobe -r tun start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --exec /usr/bin/vde_switch This is obviously incorrect, because the module is needed and cannot be unloaded as long as the service is still running. The order of those two lines should therefore be reversed.
As it turns out, the scope of the problem is wider than initially assumed. When I applied my fix, the net.* scripts for VDE interfaces suddenly failed to start! The problem is that those scripts need the loaded tun.ko module, but vde which loads it will be started *after* those scripts. A similar problem occurs at unloading: when vde is stopped first according to the service dependencies, it unloads tun.ko and die VDE interfaces won't work - or unloading will display a warning message and fail. In fact, the VDE net.* scripts only worked so far *because* of the incorrect ordering of lines! The incorrect order effectively disabled the script from unloading the tun module as intended, but therefore the *.net scripts did not run into the beforementioned problems. The clean solution seems to be to remove the module loading/unloading part completely from /etc/init.d/vde, and add them to the net.* scripts instead. Perhaps the tun module should never be unloaded at all - it doesn't seem to be worth the hassle. Otherwise we would need some sort of reference count or "holder list" in order to determine when it is safe to unload tun.ko and no-one else needs the module.
Please post "emerge --info vde" output
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If a network script depends on something, shouldn't there be a line in /etc/conf.d/net along the lines of: depend_{interface} () { need vde } where {interface} is replace with the relevant interface from net.{interface} I agree with the line order change, vde_switch should indeed stop before rmmod tun.
modprobe -r is now done in post_stop, older versions have been removed.
