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From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL startup problem - interface does not have an address yet.
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:31:09
Message-Id: 5C3205F9-5C78-4184-8944-DAACA83E3F4E@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL startup problem - interface does not have an address yet. by Manuel McLure
1 On 24 January 2013, at 18:35, Manuel McLure wrote:
2
3 > In any case, I did some more debugging and found that the problem
4 > seems to be an interaction between dhcpcd and IPv6 configuration. The
5 > latest version of dhcpcd now attempts by default to take over IPv6
6 > stateless configuration instead of letting the kernel take care of it
7 > as happened before. dhcpcd appears to be getting an IPv6 address set
8 > up before the IPv4 configuration is complete, and considers this "good
9 > enough" to background itself instead of waiting for the IPv4
10 > configuration to be complete. The workaround was to add "noipv6rs"
11 > (Disable solicition of IPv6 Router Advertisements) to the
12 > /etc/dhcpcd.conf file so that dhcpcd ignores IPv6 configuration. The
13 > kernel still configures IPv6 correctly, and dhcpcd now waits for the
14 > IPv4 configuration to be complete before backgrounding itself.
15
16 That sounds queer. You should file a bug.
17
18 Stroller.