Re: [gentoo-user] Following a well overdue world -u I have no network

[Roy Wright]

Harry Putnam wrote:

>Followin a well overdue emerge world -u I have no network on reboot.
>
>The pieces seem to be there, although I'm not sure I remember what all
>goes into it.
>
>/etc/conf.d/net has the eht0 address and gateway address but its not
>getting set on bootup.
>
>I can ifconfig and route it into place of course but wondering why it
>isn't just happening like before the update.
>
>I went thru the new conf files with etc-update and seemingly was
>carefull to get them right or merged etc.
>
>Another very disturbing phenomena is that a mail spool directory I've
>used for years in ~/spool is getting deleted by something.  This is
>not tolerable of course since all mail resides there at least until it
>is slurped by my emacs/gnus reader.
>
>I did notice some rsnaphot errors on first reboot that indicated a
>needed parameter (`config_version') was missing from my conf files.
>Must be someting new in rsnapshot since those confs worked fine
>prior to update.  I went ahead and added the parameter:
>  config_version    1.2  to each conf and recieved no more errors.
>
>What steps do I need to track down the network not getting setup and
>the mysterious deletions?
>
>Can some one just list the various files that contain the needed
>network settings.  Maybe I've inadvertantly overwritten something.
>
>Any ideas how to track donw what is deleting ~/spool?
>
>
>
>
For the network problem:

hostname and domainname migrated from /etc to /etc/conf.d

check /etc/conf.d/net for something like:
iface_eth0="dhcp"

check dmesg

check /var/log

HTH,
Roy
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