Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev

2013-04-11 Thread Stroller
On 9 April 2013, at 19:56, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 06:02:38AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote > >> Personally, I didn't know people still used LILO (no flame intended, I >> just didn't realize it was still alive and kicking), but then gentoo was >> my first real experience with linu

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev

2013-04-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 8 Apr 2013 12:12:30 -0600, Joseph wrote: > If the boys with the servers, with more than two networks cards wants > to have consistent naming they should have made it optional and not > push this "new name crap" on everybody. It is optional - RTFN! -- Neil Bothwick Suicide is the most

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev

2013-04-08 Thread Joseph
On 04/08/13 04:36, Stroller wrote: The new naming scheme, however, is much less intuitive. Where originally I just immediately use eth0, now I have to enumerate the monikers first, because even between servers of the same model (let's say, HP's DL360 G7), the PCI attachment point might diffe

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev

2013-04-08 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 10:35:28PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > AFAICT, on-board NICs have sequential MAC Adresses, with the one labeled > "Port 1" has the smallest MAC Address. So far, *all* Linux distros I've > used on a server will reliably name "Port X" as "eth$((X-1))". So it's > never a pu

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

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev

2013-04-07 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 10:30:10AM -0600, Joseph wrote > In my opinion this new udev-200 naming port is a big screw-up; I > wouldn't be surprised if few months down the road we will go back > to old naming because of misunderstandings. Some time ago, after udevd was subsumed into the systemd ta

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev

2013-04-07 Thread Stroller
On 7 April 2013, at 16:35, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Apr 7, 2013 3:56 PM, "Stroller" wrote: > >> AIUI the motive for these changes are so that you can unpack an >> enterprise-type server, the ones with two NICs on the motherboard, and >> always know which NIC is which. You can then unpack a pal

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" 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 s

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

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

2013-04-07 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-07 12:18 PM, Jarry 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. True, but only if ad

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev

2013-04-07 Thread Joseph
On 04/07/13 22:35, Pandu Poluan wrote: [snip] AFAICT, on-board NICs have sequential MAC Adresses, with the one labeled "Port 1" has the smallest MAC Address. So far, *all* Linux distros I've used on a server will reliably name "Port X" as "eth$((X-1))". So it's never a puzzle as to whic

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 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 reas

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 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 this context means

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev

2013-04-07 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Apr 7, 2013 3:56 PM, "Stroller" wrote: > > > On 7 April 2013, at 07:00, Joseph wrote: > > ... > > Are these new udev rules going across all Linux distros or this is something specific to Gentoo? > > I would assume across all distros. > > Gentoo generally makes a policy of just packaging whateve

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 a

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

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev

2013-04-07 Thread Stroller
On 7 April 2013, at 07:00, Joseph wrote: > ... > Are these new udev rules going across all Linux distros or this is something > specific to Gentoo? I would assume across all distros. Gentoo generally makes a policy of just packaging whatever upstream offers. In fact, the origins of the ebuil

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev

2013-04-06 Thread Joseph
On 04/07/13 04:06, Stroller wrote: On 6 April 2013, at 16:57, 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Eth0 interface not found - udev

2013-04-06 Thread Stroller
On 6 April 2013, at 16:57, 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

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 ifconf

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 configura

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

2013-04-06 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-04-06 1:50 PM, Jarry 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 that, and if there are

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 >>

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.

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

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 alte

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

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 mu

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 > /etc/init.d/ne

[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 exi