updating system broke my internet! (SOLVED)

djhyland · n00b Joined: 26 Nov 2008 Posts: 67 Location: St. Paul MN

First off, sorry for the melodramatic title, but it sums up my problem.

Last night, after running emerge world, I noticed that there was a new version of portage available. I installed it, synced, and ran emerge world again. Funny thing, though: emerge -a world emerged somewhere around 132 packages, most of which were not being upgraded, just re-emerged. I'm still a semi-noob, and I thought "what the hell, I'll see what happens". The emerge completed, and things seemed to work fine, except that when I ran emerge -a world again, it said that the same 132 packages needed updating again. Oh well.

So, this morning, I decided to reboot my computer and see if that fixed the repetitive emerge world problem. My system came up, but with some error messages, which I'll list below. Worse, when I went to connect to my wireless network, I found more problems. I'd select my network from nm-applet, and my computer would slow down as if it was pounding the ram and CPU as nm-applet tried to connect. Both lights would come up on the applet, as if things were working, but after the second light would come up, the applet would go right back to disconnected.

Here's an exerpt of my startup messages, as concern networking:

slackline

djhyland · n00b Joined: 26 Nov 2008 Posts: 67 Location: St. Paul MN

slackline · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 12:08 pm Post subject:

So the interface is being bought up but you can\'t see any networks.

Dumb question, but worth asking, are you sure your networks on? Check to eliminate this.

Have you tried manual configuration of the interface using iwconfig?

You\'ll need to know a minimum of the essid and the channel on which its transmitting (should be configurable on your routers setup, so just note those down and use them).

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djhyland · n00b Joined: 26 Nov 2008 Posts: 67 Location: St. Paul MN

My network does appear to be on. I can access it fine from my Fedora install, and my wife can access it from her computer. But yeah, that sounds like something I might do...

My attempt at manually connecting to the network goes as such:

slackline · Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:43 pm Post subject:

How do you have DNS resolution setup on your Gentoo install?

Can you ping your routers IP address? (If its a Linksys the default is likely 192.168.1.1)

Can you ping the IP address as opposed to domain name of a site? (e.g. www.google.com == 74.125.77.147)

If you can ping the router and google\'s IP address then its likely an issue with DNS configuration.

slack
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djhyland · n00b Joined: 26 Nov 2008 Posts: 67 Location: St. Paul MN

It looks as if you've found one of my problems. Connecting to sites via IP addresses works: I can ping my router and google via IP, whereas using the domain name doesn't work. I also hooked up my computer to the wired card again, and interestingly, using the domain name no longer works there, either.

As for how I have DNS set up, I don't know enough to answer that. I am using dhcp, for what that's worth. If you'd like me to post config files or something, let me know which ones you need to see.

Again, thank you so much for the help.

EDIT: I copied over the /etc/resolv.conf file from my Fedora install, since that's what I used to install the stage 3 in the first place. Still no dice.

slackline · Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:34 pm Post subject:

What does your /etc/resolv.conf look like (both the native Gentoo one if you have it, and the Fedora one you\'ve replaced it with)?

Mine is generated by dhcpcd automagically and simply points to my router...

djhyland · n00b Joined: 26 Nov 2008 Posts: 67 Location: St. Paul MN

Thanks again! Hope this helps.

slackline · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 9:38 am Post subject:

Nothing particularly unusual there, you're running a stable version of dhcpcd.

What does your /etc/resolv.conf look like?
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djhyland · n00b Joined: 26 Nov 2008 Posts: 67 Location: St. Paul MN

Happy New Year!

nano /etc/resolv.conf

slackline · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 11:08 pm Post subject:

You might want to have a read through /usr/share/doc/openrc/net.example as that details how to configure your network devices when booting. This thread has some suggestions for setting the DNS server (although note they use the old location for the example file, it moved at some point in the revision of OpenRC).

Post up your config if your having trouble (it will be in /etc/conf.d/net ).

The warning messages aren't anything to worry about its just a symptom of the fact that it takes a few seconds to get assigned and IP address. Once this is done you should find that those services start automatically and you can see your network file systems etc.

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djhyland · n00b Joined: 26 Nov 2008 Posts: 67 Location: St. Paul MN

Just an update...I fixed the problem. I looked around through my config files, but was unable to find the correct one to change, so I restored my /etc directory from my backup. After some additional work, my install is back to the way it was. Thank you for the help!

slackline · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 11:25 am Post subject:

Glad its fixed, but restoring your whole /etc/ directory is/was a bit extreme. Would likely have been /etc/conf.d/net differences and you could have checked for differences using 'diff /etc/conf.d/net [/path/to/your/backup/of/etc/conf.d/net]' to see what differences there are.

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