OpenRC and baselayout 2 - Stunning!

rek2

I dint even know there was and upgrade.. all I know is first I notes my net.eth0 was not there..
I was like ... hmm weird.. but I made the sym link again and worked.. when I was outside and I try to
tether my phone like I used to constantly it dint work.. I mean ppp seems like it works.. it talks and I evewn get and IP
but it does not get into my interface list or the routes etc... basically my system is ignoring ppp....
now.. after this OF COURSE I when on and readed all about the upgrade etc.. but in no place it related to anythign with ppp
only network.. so I guess is related to this.. but don't know were to start looking... I mean why ppp0 does not come up?
maybe someone that worked on this can tell me were exactly to look to fix this.. and maybe add it to the upgrade procedure so
the few of us that tether our phones will not have this issue..

Thanks,.
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Erlend · Guru Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 493

I do notice a speedup in the boot process... however now the kernel part of boot (prior to baselayout) takes longer. Oh and it prints lots of stuff to my screen.

Is there any way to speed that up?
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Felig · Apprentice Joined: 22 Jun 2004 Posts: 180

I have done the upgrade, followed the guide near as I can tell, but I can't start up net.eth0.

I have two net connections, net.eth0 and net.eth2. There's an unused eth1 which I don't use yet. For various reasons, I periodically switch over to eth2 for a while, then back to eth0. I even have a cron job to make sure it reverts to eth0 eventually. Eth0 is where email lives. Eth2 has net access, but not email access. Yes, it's a long story; no, I won't describe it here.

The upgrade is not completely done yet; revdep-rebuild found about 100 packages needing remerge and is churning away. But in the meantime, there is something fishy going on which makes no sense.

WhenI first tried bringing up net.eth0, I would get this:

lightseeker · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 9:21 pm Post subject:

@Felig: for fsck issue see this https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195988 and then edit /etc/conf.d/fsck as apropriate,
for eth0 see this post https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5065939.html#5065939 and then it might be "safe" to reboot

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Felig · Apprentice Joined: 22 Jun 2004 Posts: 180

Alright, both problems are "fixed". The eth0 one I reported above; I had to swap the broadcast and metmask terms in conf.d/net. This is pretty sorry; I could understand this back in assembly language days andlimited memory, but not now.

The fsck problem, well, it just went away . Rather than reboot as it was, I left the two lines in /lib/rc/sh/net.sh commented out for the reboot, and it did fine. Then I enabled those two lines and ran init.d/net.eth[02] and the problem was gone. No doubt some new part of the boot process sets some flag that satisfies the dependency.

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rek2

rek2 · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 9:03 pm Post subject:

Added my issue to a bug see if developers can take a look.. it may as well be something very simple.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218786
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alienvenom · Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 8:03 pm Post subject:

Can someone who uses a APN with their chat_ppp0 in /etc/conf.d/net please post an example config that works with openrc? I use my phone to connect but it requires a APN specified. The example in /usr/share/doc/openrc/net.example lists a chat script, but does not list the APN. Unfortunately, due to the old chat_ppp0 containing a mixture of " (quotes) and ' (apostrophes) when I upgraded to openrc, it basically won't parse the script correctly.

Basically, this is what I was using before:

'OK' 'AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","wap.cingular","",0,0'

/var/log/messages

pappy_mcfae · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 8:08 am Post subject:

I decided to try doing the baselayout-2/openrc upgrade to my old Toshiba laptop. I figured if I could get that machine to work with the new setup, I could get this one to work with it as well. That was yesterday.

The actual upgrade itself was easy. I took everything out of the /etc/conf.d and etc/init.d directories I knew would get nuked. I removed my automatic network detection script, and set the network for the wired adapter. I got the system back to its basic form, and then did the upgrade. It went amazingly well. Once the upgrade was done, I replaced all the important stuff, edited all the new files, created /etc/timezone, and double-checked to make sure everything was done right.

I was a little more impressed this time around than the last time I did that particular upgrade. It worked, and I didn't utter one single dirty word in the process. It's amazing how quickly one learns how not to screw things up after screwing things up. :oops:

The real fun started when I tried getting my automatic networking scripting to work, as well as interface renaming. Once I got the scripting to work right, then I went on to the fun of renaming interfaces. I found out I can do it, but only after the interface has been completely configured. Enter /etc/conf.d/local.start.

Anyway, it is clear that baselayout-2 has some promise. I'm not all that sure the benefits of installing it outweigh the troubles it can bring, but it is marked as unstable. Expecting problems is *the* meaning of unstable.

Personally, I'd like network interface renaming put back into the mix, but I can make that happen on my own, if need be.

As soon as I am confident that the old laptop hasn't died from the upgrade, I'll do this machine. I also appreciate the challenge of rethinking my networking scheme. It made my brain hurt a bit, but I've had much worse.

Blessed be!
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pappy_mcfae · Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 9:55 pm Post subject:

In a word, no. Any benefit that might have been derived was lost in having to redo my scripts, and to patch up other operations. The only thing I can say is that machine shuts down really fast. The only time that's a benefit is during thunderstorms, I can shut down really fast.

However, I figured it's best to try to keep up with trends here. So, as soon as I verify that things work properly on the older laptop, then I'll make the change on this one. Until then, this one remains on the old setup.

Blessed be!
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dantrell · l33t Joined: 01 Jun 2007 Posts: 915 Location: Earth

I finally ran into an issue on the 6th box I upgraded.

I still say it's stunning. :wink:

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tsuehpsyde · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 103

I've got a question....on /etc/conf.d/net. This is what I have now:

config_eth0=(
"64.34.178.46 netmask 255.255.255.192 brd 64.255.255.255"
"64.34.175.187 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 64.255.255.255"
"64.34.175.172 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 64.255.255.255"
)

Since we now use quotes to wrap the argument now, I'm not sure how to migrate this line. The example file shows a lot of /24 stuff, but I'm not really sure how to go about it. I could guess, but this is a remote server so I'd rather not mess it up.

Getting it right the first time on the network config is pretty crucial. Other configs, I'm not as worried about. Any help is appreciated.

tsuehpsyde · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 103

Any ideas?

depontius · Advocate Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 3509

I need to do something similar for my routing. I have a static route plus a default route, specified similarly to your multiple IPs. I think the solution will end up being similar.

Have you installed the new baselayout-2 yet? I presume they'll have a pretty good set of examples somewhere in there.
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inode77 · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 10:25 am Post subject:

Runs very nice with 2 bumps here.

Running on a adapted 2.6.25 kernel with latest xorg/fglrx & iwl3945 on a IBM T60p.

Boottime cut in half OK
General Operation OK
WLAN Operation OK
WLAN net script start NOK
Shutdown hangs NOK

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pappy_mcfae · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 7:22 am Post subject:

If I read the /usr/share/doc/openrc/net.example correctly, you drop the parentheses all together, and enclose everything in quotes, as I have done below.

Tolstoi · l33t Joined: 20 May 2004 Posts: 678

Everything worked out fine here and it's really kind of ... cool

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