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SLBMEH
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Does that mean your problem is resolved? If so then please change the topic to [SOLVED].
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thepustule
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:16 am Post subject: Re: aha. |
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| Jaglover wrote: | | suicideducky wrote: |
the problem lies herein that in order to emerge something, i need a working eth0.
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What has it to do with DHCP? Use static configuration!!!
Why are you asking for help and then do not read replies?
You are fighting with this two days now ...
Setting it up from CLI takes less than a minute, you do know how to use ifconfig and route, I hope? |
I cannot believe this is your response. To have a mainstream Linux distribution where something as simple and central as the dhcp client broken is really bad. To make matters worse, your response is "use static" and to get snarky about it, you should really be ashamed. The bottom line: DHCP CLIENT SHOULD WORK.
I just did two fresh installs of Gentoo this morning. Followed the handbook just to make sure. At the point where the handbook tells me to emerge dhcpcd I did exactly that. Finished up and rebooted. Same error: "No DHCP client installed". I will upgrade baselayout as per the posts on this forum, and it will probably work ok.
BUT, the important thing to understand about this problem, today, April 9, 2007 is this:
If a new Gentoo user today tries to install a fresh gentoo system using the detailed documentation found on the website, and they follow it exactly, choosing dhcpcd exactly as the documentation suggests, they will end up with a system that does NOT work.
This should be fixed asap. |
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thepustule
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:27 am Post subject: |
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Confirmed: upgrading baselayout fixes the broken dhcp client from a new install. However, this new baselayout even further removes a new gentoo system from the description in the install handbook. For instance, the timezone setting is now in /etc/conf.d/clock instead of a symlink to /etc/localtime.
In a nutshell, for the probably 50% of gentoo computers who NEED a dhcp client (on a corporate LAN, or a large home network where static is foolish, or with a cable broadband connection that only works with dhcp or anyone using a consumer router, etc) the current install won't produce a viable network-connected system.
This looks very bad on gentoo. I really hope 2007.0 is out soon. |
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TuxeyM
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:24 am Post subject: |
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I have no clue what is happening but when I used baselayout it bombed my system.
Everytime I type it gives me some kind if fricken "UNKOWN KEY ENTERED ERROR"
although it did fix the dhcp problem. I am soo friggen lost I don't know what to do.
We really need a 2007.0
DO NOT EMERGE BASELAYOUT! |
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thepustule
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Did you possibly reboot without doing etc-update after upgrading baselayout? |
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slycordinator
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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| thepustule wrote: | | For instance, the timezone setting is now in /etc/conf.d/clock instead of a symlink to /etc/localtime. |
The handbook does not mention creating a symlink. It says to do a cp.
And if you set it in /etc/conf.d/clock and then do "emerge timezone-data" (and /etc/localtime isn't already a symlink) it'll create a symlink using the timezone that you set in that config file. |
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thepustule
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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I'd hardly call it solved. Basically until 2007.0 comes out, the gentoo install is broken. There will be more and more complaints about this.
It's amazing how people responsible for gentoo don't seem to care. this is a QA fiasco. |
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TuxeyM
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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No I didn't reboot. It just started doing it...
I etc-updated all my config files and it seems to be working now except when I do a f1 or f2 button and it shows up as a b c...
Thanks I guess guys. |
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slycordinator
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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| You probably have the wrong keymap set up. |
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TuxeyM
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| it might be. I am just doing a fresh install with a static IP instead... |
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tomjansen
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steelerguy
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| Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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| I am curious as to why this is marked as solved. There has not been a solution posted yet just a couple work around. Is the problem going to actually be solved or what? |
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mosh5382
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| Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 9:17 pm Post subject: remerging baselayout |
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remerging baselayout did it for me. It seems I always have some strange network issue on new installs of Gentoo which is annoying since you need the network to fix anything about half the time. Once that is taken care of though, it's all gravy  |
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damienmoody
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| Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 2:25 pm Post subject: DHCPCD 3.0 needs latest baselayout |
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I had the same problem. emerge baselayout solved it for me (read the mod's note in the first entry of this topic).
Let me type it here to make it easier for searches: DHCP (DHCPCD) 3.0 (or 3.0.17, which I had) needs the latest baselayout. |
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marnix.werners
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pappy_mcfae
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| Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 12:10 am Post subject: I had the same problem... |
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I had the same problem, but I thought it was because I ended the install early (after a little over 24 hours). I cheated a bit to fix the problem, since I was thinking it was a problem I caused by my hurry to move on from the 2006.1 LiveCD GUI installer, to a place where I could watch the progress of the system. I am currently watching the progress after running emerge --emptytree system. Cool, it just passed 90 of 118 packages installed. NICE!
Being that I am into experimentation, I decided that since I was setting Gentoo up on a machine that dual boots between Debian and XP, and is part of a LAN that includes two Slackware machines, I'd just see if Gentoo would accept the dhcpcd daemon from Slackware...and it did. I simply copied that file off of one of the Slack machines, placed it in the path (/usr/sbin)...and it worked.
So, for those who might have a machine running Slackware 12 (or any other distro that uses dhcpcd), you can fix the problem temporarily so you can do your emerge --sync, and everything else posted here (or so I think) to fix the problem properly.
While I'm sure it's not the best way to make it happen, copying dhcpcd from another machine will definitely work.
Your mileage may vary, and as you can tell, I am a Gentoo n00b, so please don't flame me within an inch of my life.
Blessed be!
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