[SOLVED] Temporary failure in name resolution

Dalinar7 · n00b Joined: 01 Oct 2021 Posts: 2

So I reinstalled Gentoo after some bugs with KDE and have never really had too much of an issue with network problems before, but for some reason this fresh install won't connect, I'm guessing something's wrong with the DHCP process as despite having the usual # Generated by dhcpcd tag my resolv.conf is empty
Have tried manually configuring dhcp to same issue
My /etc/conf.d/net is just

mike155 · Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2021 12:02 am Post subject:

Dalinar7,

welcome to the Gentoo forums!

Do you use OpenRC or Systemd as init system?

Are the any network related messages in the system log files?

Is a dhcp client up and running? Look at the output of

Dalinar7 · n00b Joined: 01 Oct 2021 Posts: 2

It was running, no clue what was actually wrong but after unmerging it and emerging under chroot its working properly again now, thanks for the help ^^

Tony0945 · Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2021 2:42 pm Post subject:

Had a similar problem two days ago. Even re-configuring for static ip didn't help.
Turned out the problem was that the internet switch that it and the Raspberry Pi were connected into was powered down. The switch is on a UPS but, probably because of an earlier power outage, the battery was drained because the breaker it was connected to was tripped. Make sure you have powered up connectivity and all plugs are connected properly.