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wpkzz
Tux's lil' helper
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 Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 2:17 pm Post subject: hostname not set |
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This may seem very dumb, but i cannot set it straight.
I cannot set the hostname.
The file /etc/init.d/hostname has the content it has to have, namely:
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#!/sbin/runscript
# Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Roy Marples <roy@marples.name>
# Released under the 2-clause BSD license.
description="Sets the hostname of the machine."
depend() {
keyword -prefix -lxc
}
start()
{
hostname=${hostname-${HOSTNAME-localhost}}
ebegin "Setting hostname to $hostname"
hostname "$hostname"
eend $? "Failed to set the hostname"
}
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As well the file /etc/conf.d/hostname :
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# Set to the hostname of this machine
hostname="monstruona"
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When the machine is booting up, syslog-ng complains that no hostname is set,
hence, it cannot work. The "issue" greetings shows
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This is (none). <date>
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The command hostname also gives me a (none) answer.
But if i give the command
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rc-update add hostname boot
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, she tells me that hostname is allready in the boot runlevel.
And the command rc-update show shows absolutely none of it.
I tried deleting and adding it again, to no gain.
Seems like a simple problem, so simple, that it shouldn't be.
Thanks in advance, |
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jeracho
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| Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Have you tried running env-update && source /etc/profile? |
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mv
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| Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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You can try to check manually whether /etc/runlevels/boot/hostname is a symlink to /etc/init.d/hostname
Also, are the permissions of /etc/init.d/hostname correct? |
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wpkzz
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| Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 2:36 pm Post subject: strange symlink |
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Okey, yes, I did try the env-update and source profile many times. That is not it.
The symlink thing... I didn't know about that one. If I check with ls -lah the directory /etc/runlevels/boot/
I obtain the following list:
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monstruona boot # ls -lah
total 8.0K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K May 9 20:25 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4.0K Apr 24 21:21 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 May 9 20:25 alsasound -> /etc/init.d/alsasound
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Apr 24 21:21 bootmisc -> /etc/init.d/bootmisc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Apr 24 21:21 fsck -> /etc/init.d/fsck
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 May 9 18:56 hostname -> /etc/init.d//etc/init.d/hostname
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Apr 24 21:21 hwclock -> /etc/init.d/hwclock
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Apr 24 21:21 keymaps -> /etc/init.d/keymaps
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Apr 24 21:21 localmount -> /etc/init.d/localmount
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Apr 24 21:21 modules -> /etc/init.d/modules
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I notice two things: the path for the symlinl is differently stated to the rest, and it comes in different colours.
Actually is the only one which is covered in red outline with white letters in my terminal, instead of the usual cyan -> green scheme that the others follow. What is that supposed to mean? |
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khayyam
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Location: Room 101
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| Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 3:18 pm Post subject: Re: strange symlink |
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| wpkzz wrote: | | Code: | | lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 May 9 18:56 hostname -> /etc/init.d//etc/init.d/hostname |
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wpkzz ... I'm not sure what would have caused this but the fix is simple:
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best ... khay |
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mv
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| Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 4:54 pm Post subject: Re: strange symlink |
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| wpkzz wrote: | | Actually is the only one which is covered in red outline with white letters in my terminal, instead of the usual cyan -> green scheme that the others follow. What is that supposed to mean? |
It means that it is a dangliing symlink, i.e. not pointing to any file (the path it points to does not exist). As khayyam has noticed, such a link is usually caused by a bug which, however, is now hard to reproduce. |
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wpkzz
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| Posted: Sun May 26, 2013 2:20 am Post subject: Bigger issue... |
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Hi crew:
I am just discovering that this seems to be part of a bigger issue. dbus-daemon is also not starting, and other
services are also messed up. I'll check the details and get back to you if I manage to do something usefull.
Thanks! |
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wpkzz
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| Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2013 2:47 am Post subject: |
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| Well, this sure is annoying... I have looked everything, read all rc man pages, and even changed the kernel with no avail. Not only hostname doesn't start, but net.*, wicd, wpa_supplicant, etc. Its like rc is not even there. Everything has to be done manually. |
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mv
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| Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2013 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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You might reemerge openrc, but before I would check with
what is going on. Perhaps a filesystem corruption broke half of your system. might be appropriate. |
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wpkzz
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| Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2013 8:17 pm Post subject: Well 'tis is fishy... |
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I had reemerged openrc a few days ago and it didn't solve the problem. I read on an external forum (which i do not remember) to call
rc with full path,
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# /sbin/rc-update add service default
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And, hello, it worked... I sure do not know why. I checked if I had to rc-update, allias or somethin of the sort.
But I followed mv's advice and did a qcheck, and this is what I got. It seems that there are a bunch of odd ends here.
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# qcheck -a -B
media-sound/alsa-utils
dev-texlive/texlive-mathextra
dev-texlive/texlive-latex
dev-texlive/texlive-formatsextra
dev-texlive/texlive-basic
app-text/texlive-core
sys-process/cronbase
dev-lang/ghc
net-wireless/wpa_supplicant
sys-apps/sysvinit
sys-apps/openrc
sys-apps/baselayout
sys-devel/gcc
app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-opengl
net-print/cups
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and
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Checking sys-apps/openrc-0.11.8 ...
MD5-DIGEST: /etc/init.d/net.lo
MD5-DIGEST: /etc/conf.d/hostname
MD5-DIGEST: /etc/conf.d/hwclock
MD5-DIGEST: /etc/rc.conf
* 298 out of 302 files are good
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woooo.. . hostname and hwclock and rc.conf have bad md5 digest... but doesn't mean anything, does it? These are text files which I can change. |
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mv
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| Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2013 12:12 pm Post subject: Re: Well 'tis is fishy... |
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| wpkzz wrote: | | woooo.. . hostname and hwclock and rc.conf have bad md5 digest... but doesn't mean anything, does it? These are text files which I can change. |
These two are files which you probably have changed - therefore the differing md5 from the fresh install. However, init.d/net.lo looks more serious, since you shouldn't have a reason to modify that file |
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wpkzz
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| Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2013 12:14 am Post subject: |
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| No, it is not serious at all. I just put a crazy comment in one line of net.lo to see if it was really being used. It was when I discovered that many services were not starting. |
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Captain Newbie
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| Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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A recent (funtoo, don't taze me) install has the same problem. Standby one, gonna re-merge openrc and see if that'll fix it. (Seems to be that something is rotten with openrc.)
edit: yeah, that:
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Deathwing00
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| Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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Did you add your hostname to /etc/hosts?
Something like 127.0.0.1 <FQDN> <hostname> localhost ... should do the thing. |
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Deathwing00
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| Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Moved from Installing Gentoo to Networking & Security. |
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