Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A few things: > > 1. Run "equery check baselayout". If it reports anything wrong in > /lib/rcscripts, re-merge it.
equery did show a herd of wrong mtimes. Which I'm guessing is probably normal but it also shows MAKEDEV missing. So I re-emerged it. Following re-emerge, equery now shows: root # equery check baselayout 2>&1|tee file2 !!! /etc/rc.conf has incorrect md5sum !!! /etc/gentoo-release has wrong mtime (is 1135082266, should be 1135082250) !!! /etc/conf.d/hostname has incorrect md5sum !!! /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 has incorrect md5sum !!! /etc/conf.d/clock has incorrect md5sum !!! /etc/conf.d/domainname has incorrect md5sum sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.0_pre11-r3: * 153 out of 159 files good However, it didn't help the init script problem a bit. I still see the long list of stuff and a failure trying to start stuff with: /etc/init.d/NAME start > 2. Make sure that net.eth1 is a symlink to net.lo, _not_ a copy of an > old script. Bingo...! It was not a symlink and was massively different. Checking backups from previous running system (before recent full reinstall) I see net.eth0 and net.eth1 both symlinked to net.lo. So renamed the current net.eth1 and symlinked a net.eth1 to net.lo. Starting services now works as expected. Thank you Mr. Fish, I'd probably never have figured this out from looking at the init process or the scripts. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list