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 > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
