[plug] Interface not being brought up on bootup

[Michael Hunt]

On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 11:13, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> I don't know.  What do ifdown -av and ifup -av tell you?  It should at
> least print out what commands it's executing that give the error.
> 
> On my (working) sid machine:
> 
> # ifdown -av
> Configuring interface lo=lo (inet)
> run-parts /etc/network/if-down.d
> ifconfig lo down
> run-parts /etc/network/if-post-down.d
> Configuring interface eth0=eth0 (inet)
> run-parts /etc/network/if-down.d
> dhcpcd -k eth0
> ****  /sbin/dhcpcd-bin: not running

The only difference for me is that I'm using pump instead of dhcpcd and
the 'ifconfig lo down' fails with the 'ifconfig: cannot resolve 'down' :
Host name lookup failure' error.

> # ifup -av
> Configuring interface lo=lo (inet)
> run-parts /etc/network/if-pre-up.d
> ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 up
> run-parts /etc/network/if-up.d
> Configuring interface eth0=eth0 (inet)
> run-parts /etc/network/if-pre-up.d
> dhcpcd                eth0
> run-parts /etc/network/if-up.d

Again everything is exactly the same except ifconfig returns an error
after the 'ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 up' line with the 'ifconfig: only one
address allowed for interface 'lo'' error.

> | ifupdown 0.6.4-4.6
> | net-tools 1.60-8
> | netbase 4.14
> 
> Those are the same versions as I'm running, so nothing odd there.

Good to have that confirmed.

Its got me stumped. I'm thinking of doing a rebuild but it is not a very
good time for me at the moment being in the middle of exams. This is the
second time sid has died on me causing me to do/consider a rebuild
because of time constraits.

Moral of the story. Practice what you preach when you tell people sid is
_not_ for production machines.

Argh .... to much frustration at the moment.

> Cheers,
> 
> Cameron.

Appreciated your help so far Cameron but I'm still at a loss to what could be causing it. The only thing I could think of is that the lookup has caused a problem with one of the networking binaries and that this is causing the error. But I would have thought that a reinstall of the packages would have fixed this though it could have caused a problem with the package and the binaries at the same time (what are the odds of that :-)).

Anyhow if anyone has any flashes of inspriation I would love to hear
from you. Otherwise I will look at doing a rebuil on Thursday arvo after
my exams.

Michael Hunt


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