RE: [gentoo-user] Init scripts waiting for deps in progress

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Uwe Thiem [mailto:uwix@××××.na]
> Sent: 08 January 2007 10:25
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Init scripts waiting for deps in progress
>
>
> On 07 January 2007 19:10, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> > I have the following set of init stuff:
> >
> >  net.wireless depends on ipw3945d
> >  ntp-client depends on net
> >  net.wireless automagically starts when the interface
> "wireless" appears
> >  net.wireless is in the boot runlevel
> >
> > When I boot the computer, it starts ipw3945d before
> net.wireless, but not
> > in time for the "wireless" interface to appear before it
> tries to start
> > net.wireless. Moments later, the interface appears, and it runs
> > net.wireless again, asynchronously, and it spends a while
> starting up (it
> > has to find the correct network, and dhcp, etc).
> >
> > While net.wireless is starting up, the system synchronously starts
> > ntp-client, which attempts to start net.wireless; this
> fails (it's already
> > starting), and so ntp-client fails. Then the asynchronous
> net.wireless
> > finishes starting, and I have network, but no ntp-client.
>
> You didn't say which runlevel started ntp-client. Assuming it
> is also in your
> boot runlevel, you can try to move it to your default
> runlevel. That way, it
> will start a bit later.
>
> Uwe
>

A quick and dirty fix may include a sleep statement somewhere for a few
seconds, if needed?

David
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