Re: [gentoo-user] udev or Gentoo issue?

[Samuli Suominen]

On 14/05/14 03:18, Grant wrote:
>>> I'm having a problem starting the USB network interfaces properly on
>>> one of my systems.  I brought the problem to the udev list and they're
>>> indicating that it's a Gentoo problem:
>>>
>>> https://www.mail-archive.com/systemd-devel@×××××××××××××××××.org/msg18840.html
>>>
>>> Should I file a bug?
>>>
>>> - Grant
>>>
>> Like pointed out in the upstream thread, it's either wrongly built
>> net-misc/dhcpcd (should be with USE="udev")
>> and if not using dhcpcd, it might be a bug in net-misc/netifrc's
>> /etc/init.d/net.lo depend() { } section --
>> it's possible it's missing dependency that forces /etc/init.d/udev start
>> first, specially if OpenRC is using parallel
>> startup
>>
>> So not really a udev bug, rather a misconfiguration in dhcpcd USE flags
>> OR bug in dependencies of netifrc's net.lo script
>
> I'm starting two interfaces, one that uses dhcpcd and one that does
> not.  Both fail to start in the default runlevel until they are
> hotplugged later.  I do have dhcpcd built with USE=udev.  The string
> "udev" does not occur in /etc/init.d/net.lo so maybe that's the
> problem?  Please confirm that I should file a Gentoo bug for this.
>
> - Grant
>

Try adding 'after udev' to net.lo's depend() { } section and see if that
helps, if it does, file a bug
saying so.
It was more of an educated guess than 100% accurate knowledge. I can't
think of an another
way to force netifrc to behave, since it's not coded in C, and it can't
link to libudev, so...

However since you say *both*, even the one with dhcpcd fail to start,
before filing that bug,
see if disabling netifrc hotplugging works:

# ln -s /dev/null /etc/udev/rules.d/90-network.rules

And if that helps, then file a bug saying so.

One or the another, bug is propably needed in anycase.