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PostPosted: Fri Jan 03, 2014 6:32 pm    Post subject: [SOLVED] ERROR: interface eth0 does not exist Reply with quote

I've been going through several other posts I found that had this error with no resolution. My problem started when I had 20+ blocked packages. I was attempting to upgrade QT and KDE to the latest in portage, I'd removed several packages when my system froze. I ended up having to power cycle and now net.lo and net.eth0 will not start.

I get the error:

Code:

Bringing up interface eth0
/etc/init.d/net.eth0: line 510: _exists: command not found
ERROR: interface eth0 does not exist
Ensure that you have loaded the correct kernel module for your hard ware
ERROR: net.eth0 failed to start


I get the exact same error for net.lo as well. My kernel drive for my NIC is sky2 which is properly loaded.

ifconfig -a shows eth0 and lo but both appear to be down.


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PostPosted: Fri Jan 03, 2014 7:46 pm    Post subject: Re: ERROR: interface eth0 does not exist Reply with quote

guinness.stout wrote:
I've been going through several other posts I found that had this error with no resolution. My problem started when I had 20+ blocked packages. I was attempting to upgrade QT and KDE to the latest in portage, I'd removed several packages when my system froze. I ended up having to power cycle and now net.lo and net.eth0 will not start.

I get the error:

Code:

Bringing up interface eth0
/etc/init.d/net.eth0: line 510: _exists: command not found
ERROR: interface eth0 does not exist
Ensure that you have loaded the correct kernel module for your hard ware
ERROR: net.eth0 failed to start


I get the exact same error for net.lo as well. My kernel drive for my NIC is sky2 which is properly loaded.

ifconfig -a shows eth0 and lo but both appear to be down.


Hahaha. Sorry. net.lo? You cannot even ping your own machine?
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 03, 2014 8:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

guinness.stout,

Looking in dmesg, can you see eth0 being renamed to something else?

Code:
/etc/init.d/net.eth0: line 510: _exists: command not found
suggests that baselayout, openrc or its splinter package that provides networking is damaged. You should have the sources on your system, so should be able to run
Code:
emerge -1  baselayout, openrc
without needing networking.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 03, 2014 8:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can ping 127.0.0.1 just fine.

I tried emerge -1 baselayout openrc which seem to run just fine but that did not resolve the issue.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 03, 2014 9:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

guinness.stout,

Try
Code:
emerge netifrc -1av

If you don't already have it, do not emerge it.

The is the networking part of openrc, if your openrc is recent enough to be supplied in two parts.
etc-update may also be required
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 03, 2014 9:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I tired etc-update first with -3 option, that fixed my problem. Both interfaces are up and working and I can communicate with the network. Thanks.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 03, 2014 10:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

guinness.stout wrote:
I tired etc-update first with -3 option, that fixed my problem. Both interfaces are up and working and I can communicate with the network. Thanks.

Bullocks!
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 17, 2014 9:56 pm    Post subject: Which files where updated by etc-update? Reply with quote

Does anybody know what exactly was the miracle-work of etc-update?
In other words: Which files were updated by etc-update?
Maybe that'll give me a clue where I have to look for solving this same issue. :(

Thanking you all in advance,

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 4:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think you are having issue with newer udev and the file to keep old scheme ; yep something etc-update won't help you.
But if it's that, answer is in the udev news item.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 18, 2014 7:54 am    Post subject: Symlink to net.lo Reply with quote

Typically my bad.
My /etc/init.d/net.enp* were uniq files. (Just a copy of net.lo)
I deleted them and symlinked them to net.lo
Problem solved.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 28, 2017 5:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

First of all sorry for landing here 3 years after the post being closed. I have installed Gentoo for the first time in one of my machines as well as in a virtual machine inside another computer. In both cases I can connect in the internet without any issues, but it is bottering me that at login I have a similar error message like the one posted here. At login I get "ERROR:interface enp0s3 does not exists" jointly with the other error messages. As I said, I can connect, but I would like a clean startup. Besides, I have installed xmonad as sole window manager and one of the customizations which reads information from eth0 is not getting anything, and I guess those may be related issues. There is in fact a renaming:

Code:
dmesg | grep eth0
[13.643154] e1000 0000:00:03 enp0s3: renamed from eth0


It seams that xmonad may be trying to read eth0 but just cant.
Thank you all for your attention.
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