Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-08 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 09:12:15AM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: Steady on, old chap! By it I was meaning the general inconvenience all round occasioned by the changes between udev-{197,200}. Not everybody encountered this. For example Dale, and Walt D. didn't have to do anything.

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 09:12:15 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: I didnt get hit either either, but (STRONG hint) ... I use eudev, so dies Dale and I believe Walt uses mdev. Time for those in server environments to jump ship? Except the problems that udev is trying to avoid are more likely to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:14:00 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: Well, in my case 80-net-names-slot.rules was neither empty, nor symlink to dev null, but FULL OF COMMENTS AND NOTING ELSE, Well... even I know enough to reason that 'empty' in this context means no UNcommented lines. Comments are

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-07 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-07 6:55 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:14:00 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: Well, in my case 80-net-names-slot.rules was neither empty, nor symlink to dev null, but FULL OF COMMENTS AND NOTING ELSE, Well... even I know enough to reason that 'empty' in

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-07 Thread Jarry
On 07-Apr-13 18:03, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-04-07 6:55 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:14:00 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: Well, in my case 80-net-names-slot.rules was neither empty, nor symlink to dev null, but FULL OF COMMENTS AND NOTING ELSE, Well... even I

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-07 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-07 12:18 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 07-Apr-13 18:03, Tanstaafl wrote: Every sysadmin knows (or should know) that a config file full of nothing but comments isn't going to do *anything* other than provide whatever defaults the program is designed to use in such a case.

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:03:21 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: But not actually empty. If you are correct, and I suspect you are, then the news item is poorly worded. No effective content is not the same as no content at all. Oh, I agree that it was poorly worded, I was just pointing out that it

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-07 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 7, 2013 8:13 AM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: On 07/04/13 01:10, Alan Mackenzie wrote: 'Evening, Alan. On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 06:36:07PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 06/04/2013 17:57, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Please excuse me, I am running back and forth from the

[gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Nick Khamis
After updating our systems we lost network connectivity to the servers. When trying to start net.eth0 we got the following message: /ib64/rc/net/wpa_supplicant.sh: line 68: _is wireless command not found /etc/init.d/net.eth0: line 548: _exists command not found Errror: Interface eth0 does not

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Nick. On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:51:42AM -0400, Nick Khamis wrote: After updating our systems we lost network connectivity to the servers. When trying to start net.eth0 we got the following message: /ib64/rc/net/wpa_supplicant.sh: line 68: _is wireless command not found

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 06/04/2013 17:57, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Please excuse me, I am running back and forth from the servers and typing the error message here. Did our configuration get switched to IP6? These are our DB servers and why me!!! Why ME! No, it's not just you, it's happened to pretty much

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Alan Mackenzie
'Evening, Alan. On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 06:36:07PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 06/04/2013 17:57, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Please excuse me, I am running back and forth from the servers and typing the error message here. Did our configuration get switched to IP6? These are our DB servers

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Jarry
On 06-Apr-13 19:10, Alan Mackenzie wrote: STOP SPREADING THIS FUD It did not happen to pretty much everybody. It happened to people who blindly updated thignsd and walked away, who did not read the news announcement, who did not read the CLEARLY WORDED wiki article at freedesktop.org or

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 06.04.2013 17:57, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: Hi, Nick. On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:51:42AM -0400, Nick Khamis wrote: After updating our systems we lost network connectivity to the servers. When trying to start net.eth0 we got the following message: /ib64/rc/net/wpa_supplicant.sh: line 68: _is

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Mick
On Saturday 06 Apr 2013 20:03:15 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 06.04.2013 17:57, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: Hi, Nick. On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:51:42AM -0400, Nick Khamis wrote: After updating our systems we lost network connectivity to the servers. When trying to start net.eth0 we got

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 06.04.2013 21:33, schrieb Mick: On Saturday 06 Apr 2013 20:03:15 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 06.04.2013 17:57, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: Hi, Nick. On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:51:42AM -0400, Nick Khamis wrote: After updating our systems we lost network connectivity to the servers. When

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-06 1:50 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Well, in my case 80-net-names-slot.rules was neither empty, nor symlink to dev null, but FULL OF COMMENTS AND NOTING ELSE, Well... even I know enough to reason that 'empty' in this context means no UNcommented lines. Comments are just

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread William Kenworthy
On 07/04/13 01:10, Alan Mackenzie wrote: 'Evening, Alan. On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 06:36:07PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 06/04/2013 17:57, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Please excuse me, I am running back and forth from the servers and typing the error message here. Did our configuration get

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Nick Khamis
The problem with eudev is that we are using the hardened profile and not sure if it is part of our source tree. Right now, I just would like to pinpoint this stubborn little issue I just wanted to mention that name did not change. ifconfig eth0 still pulls up the interface, and same for