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

[Harry Putnam]

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?


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