quoth the [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > This morning I'm trying to unravel the non-clear chain of events > involved in the init scripts. I'm getting lots of messy output from > /etc/init.d/net.lo and looking at net.lo, I'm not able to see where all > this stuff is being loaded. I'm taling about the contents of: > `depend' for example. > > There is a for loop that calls the function `depend' and when it runs I > see the output below. More than half of this stuff isn't even > installed far as I know.
As best I can tell, what is happening here is that the net.lo script checks all the "modules" in /lib/rcscripts/net.modules.d. These scripts are all the different ways you can get a net connection, and the one used in any particular instance is decided by /etc/conf.d/net (again...as best as I can tell). In your case, it would seem the net.lo script is trying _all_ of them. So: are you absolutely sure you net conf file is written properly? > It is preventing most services from starting > by way of the normal channels although they can be started without > problems by hand and using the flags found in /etc/conf.d. Can you elaborate here? Do you mean that if you try: /etc/init.d/ntpd start it fails but if you use: /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start /etc/init.d/ntpd start it works? Do you have a net connection when you try this? What is the status of eth0? I am wondering why it tries to start eth1 here instead of eth0... If eth0 is already up, and a net connection is present then ntpd should be satisfied, and not try to run another net.* script. > Can anyone guess what is causing this? I did overwrite the old net.lo > yesterday with the .cfg000 after an update but the diff showed no > differences with previous one. I still have previous one and it isn't > different. > > I tried a copy of net.lo that IS different from back in Nov sometime > but it produces the same output. > > The trouble must be somewhere futher up. > > ====================================================== > /etc/init.d/ntpd start > > * Caching service dependencies ... [ > ok ] * Starting eth1 > * adsl does not support the required function provides > * apipa does not support the required function check_installed > * arping does not support the required function provides > * bonding does not support the required function provides > * bridge does not support the required function provides > * dhclient does not support the required function provides > * dhcpcd does not support the required function provides > * essidnet does not support the required function check_installed > * ifconfig does not support the required function provides > * ifplugd does not support the required function provides > * ipppd does not support the required function provides > * iproute2 does not support the required function provides > * iptunnel does not support the required function check_installed > * iwconfig does not support the required function provides > * macchanger does not support the required function check_installed > * macnet does not support the required function check_installed > * netplugd does not support the required function provides > * pppd does not support the required function provides > * pump does not support the required function provides > * rename does not support the required function check_installed > * system does not support the required function check_installed > * tuntap does not support the required function provides > * udhcpc does not support the required function provides > * vlan does not support the required function provides > * wpa_supplicant does not support the required function provides > * no interface module has been loaded > * ERROR: Problem starting needed services. > * "ntpd" was not started. > HOST:reader /bk/rsnap -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..." - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972
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