Hi, I was getting the non-helpful message "Failed to change MAC address" from ./net.eth0 start and eventually found the cause. For some reason, in /lib/rcscripts/net.modules.d/macchanger, the $opts variable starts off containing the string 'start stop restart' to which the other options are added. This means the command "/sbin/macchanger start stop restart --mac=<mac>" is executed and obviously fails. Adding opts="" to the start of the function makes it work (not sure if this is the correct fix. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add mac_eth0="<mac>" to /etc/conf.d/net 2. Run /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start 3. Actual Results: Error message: Failed to change MAC address. Expected Results: Bleh
What version of baselayout are you using? You neglected to provide the output of "emerge --info"
Eep sorry. Didn't see anywhere telling me to do that... Here it is: Portage 2.0.51.20-r5 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.10-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r7 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.8 dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r4 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r8 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.2-r5 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.22 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acl acpi adns aim alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzlib cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl doc dvd emboss encode esd ethereal exif f77 fam fastcgi fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm gif gnutls gphoto2 gpmgstreamer gtk gtk2 icq imagemagick imap imlib innodb ipv6 jabber java jpeg kde lcms ldap libg++ libwww lirc mad map mikmod mime mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg msn mysql mysqli ncurses nls nocd offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic pie png posix postgres python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang sockets speex spell sqlite sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vorbis xine xml2 xmms xpm xv xvid zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY Using baselayout 1.11.8
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 71929 ***
