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On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 9:31 AM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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> That error message comes from iproute2, so it looks like you hit this |
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> bug: |
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> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366905 |
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> In a nutshell we are trying to convert ifconfig syntax to iproute2 |
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> syntax, but we do not do it correctly in this case. |
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> The consensus on the dev list seems to be that it is fine to stop doing |
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> that, so at some point in the future, probably a release coming up soon, |
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> the syntax of config_* lines will have to match the tool you are using |
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> to configure the interfaces. |
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That looks like it. I fixed it by going to /NN notation, but it should |
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probably be documented in the conversion guide. I was lucky that I |
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didn't decide to do the upgrade remotely and had a console to work |
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with because neither network interface came up due to that error. |
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