Re: [gentoo-user] offline runlevel

2006-11-16 Thread Roger Mason
Devon Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And, I'll second Richard, emerge ifplugd dcm Thanks Richard Joe Devon, ifplugd is working perfectly for me. Roger -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] offline runlevel

2006-11-15 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I am following the runlevel guide http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2chap=4 to set up an offline runlevel for my laptop. I have in /etc/runlevels/offline: rmason # rc-update show offline acpid | offline cpufreqd | offline

Re: [gentoo-user] offline runlevel

2006-11-15 Thread Flophouse Joe
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Roger Mason wrote: I am following the runlevel guide http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2chap=4 to set up an offline runlevel for my laptop. When I boot into the kernel with this entry in grub.conf: # For booting GNU/Linux title Gentoo Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] offline runlevel

2006-11-15 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/15/06, Roger Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the system still tries to start eth0 and then wastes time while dhcpd times out. Probably you need one or both of the following in /etc/conf.d/rc: RC_PLUG_SERVICES=!net.eth0 RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING=lo BUT, what you probably really want is to

Re: [gentoo-user] offline runlevel

2006-11-15 Thread Roger Mason
Flophouse Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible that there are still some services set to start in the boot runlevel that would be more appropriate in the default or offline runlevel? Joe Well, the only script in boot that looks promising is net.lo: I had considered removing it from

Re: [gentoo-user] offline runlevel

2006-11-15 Thread Devon Miller
try grepping for need in /etc/runlevels/boot/* and /etc/runlevels/offline/* to see if any of your boot or offline services has a dependency on networking..If there is something that requires net, see if setting RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING=lo in /etc/conf.d/rc will do the trick. If that doesn;t work,