Hi kp,

You were exactly right! As you suggested  I commented out the bottom
line of /etc/dhcpcd.conf:

#background

and then shorewall started OK.

Thanks!

Tim

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 9:46 AM, kp kirchdoerfer
<kap...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Am Montag, 19. Januar 2015, 18:56:00 schrieb Timothy Wegner:
>> I have encountered a small Shorewall issue after upgrading from
>> Bering-uClibc_5.1.3-beta1 to 5.1.3-rc1. I'm using my Bering Soekris
>> box as a firewall/router that gets it's IP from Comcast via DHCP. I am
>> running the Bering-uClibc_5.1.3-rc1_x86_64_syslinux_vga.tar.gz version
>> modified to use the serial port.
>>
>> During boot I get this error:
>>
>> Starting "Shorewall firewall":    ERROR: Can't determine the IP address of
>> eth0 Terminated
>>
>> Then I run WebConf from a machine on my network, see that Shorewall is
>> not running, and start it manually. Shorewall starts with no problems,
>> and then everything appears to be very good.
>>
>> Shorewall gets it's IP from shorewall/params:
>>
>> ETH0_IP=`find_first_interface_address eth0`
>>
>> Looks like some change between beta1 and rc1 is causing a problem. If
>> anyone has an idea where to look, let me know. Meanwhile I can
>> systematically look at what is different.
>
> Hi Tim;
>
> in case you use dhcpcd there has been a change which may cause the problem.
>
> +# Switch to background immediately, not stopping boot process
> +background
>
> If so you may try to comment out the option and see if it works.
>
> kp
>
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