On 2023-08-22, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, gentoo. > > With the new dhcpcd-10.0.2 (previous version being ?9.5.1) I get spurious > error messages on boot up. In particular, I see this: > > * Starting DHCP Client Daemon ... > * [ ok ] * Bringing up interface enp38s0 > * Caching network module dependencies > * config_enp38s0 not specified; defaulting to DHCP > * dhcp ... > * The dhcpcd version is too old. Please upgrade. > * [ !! ] * ERROR: net.enp38s0 failed to start [...] > > So it would appear that everything is working, but I still get error > messages. The "dhcpcd version is too old" is particularly galling, given > that dhcpcd was updated yesterday.
A check (in netifrc) didn't account for two-digit major version numbers when checking the dhcpcd version. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=904422 So check if there's a newer version of net-misc/netifrc available. -- Nuno Silva
