Using iproute2-style dhcp settings for eth0 and restarting network gives: * Bringing eth0 down... * Releasing DHCP lease for eth0 [ ok ] * Stopping eth0 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument [ ok ] * Bringing eth0 up... * eth0 dhcp [ ok ] * eth0 received address Note "RTNETLINK" error and "eth0 received address" doesn't print address. For non-printing address: Line 384 in net.eth0: x=$(ip addr show ${label} 2>${devnull} | awk -v\ i=${label} \ 'NF==i {print $2}' | cut -d/ -f1) [[ -n ${i} ]] && einfo " ${label} received a\ddress ${x}" Should have '$NF==i {print $2}' rather than 'NF==i {print $2}' to grab address. For RTNETLINK error: It appears that "iface_stop()" runs "iface_stop_dhcp {i}" followed by "iface_stop_interface ${i}". On my network the dhcpcd server stops with iface_stop_dhcp and the address is deleted, and then iface_stop_interface is called and attempts to delete the same address which is now non-existent, giving the RTNETLINK message. Line 106 in net.eth0: ip addr del $(ip addr show ${iface%%:*} label ${iface} \ | awk -v i=${iface} '$NF==i {print $2}') dev ${iface%%:\*} Which expands to "ip addr del dev eth0" on my machine, giving the error. Maybe something like the following would work: x="$(ip addr show ${iface%%:*} label ${iface} \ | awk -v i=${iface} '$NF==i {print $2}')" if [[ -n ${x} ]]; then ip addr del ${x} dev ${iface%%:\*} fi Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Do: /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart 2. 3. Actual Results: * Bringing eth0 down... * Releasing DHCP lease for eth0 [ ok ] * Stopping eth0 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument [ ok ] * Bringing eth0 up... * eth0 dhcp [ ok ] * eth0 received address Expected Results: * Bringing eth0 down... * Releasing DHCP lease for eth0 [ ok ] * Stopping eth0 [ ok ] * Bringing eth0 up... * eth0 dhcp [ ok ] * eth0 received address 205.250.249.96 I've seen lots of information on the net concerning RTNETLINK errors being due to kernel configuration, I don't think that's the case here, but I'm no expert...
do you still see this problem with baselayout-1.11.x?
This has deffo been fixed in baselayout-1.11.7-r2
*** Bug 58996 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I upgraded baselayout about a month ago and all seems fixed - thanks guys!
I've got the same with [ebuild R ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.11.1 USE="unicode -bootstrap -build -static" 0 kB after upgrading today. Now i switched to ifconfig in conf.d/net but net.lo still down QWERTY1 ~ # /etc/init.d/net.lo restart * One of the files in /etc/{conf.d,init.d} or /etc/rc.conf * has a modification time in the future! * WARNING: you are stopping a boot service. * Stopping lo * Bringing down lo * Shutting down lo ... RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument [ !! ] * Starting lo RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument * Bringing up lo * 127.0.0.1/8 RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument [ ok ] RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument * Adding routes * 127.0.0.0/8 ... RTNETLINK answers: Network is down [ !! ] QWERTY1 ~ #
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To anyone coming across this bug: check bug #213660
