On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 9:31 AM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > That error message comes from iproute2, so it looks like you hit this > bug: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366905 > > In a nutshell we are trying to convert ifconfig syntax to iproute2 > syntax, but we do not do it correctly in this case. > > The consensus on the dev list seems to be that it is fine to stop doing > that, so at some point in the future, probably a release coming up soon, > the syntax of config_* lines will have to match the tool you are using > to configure the interfaces.
That looks like it. I fixed it by going to /NN notation, but it should probably be documented in the conversion guide. I was lucky that I didn't decide to do the upgrade remotely and had a console to work with because neither network interface came up due to that error. -- Manuel A. McLure WW1FA <man...@mclure.org> <http://www.mclure.org> ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft
