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

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 22:26:30 -0500
Roy Wright wrote:

> 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:

first thing to know - have you updated your config files with
etc-update or dispatch-conf?

>
> 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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