On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 03:37:50PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Apr 19, rleigh <rle...@codelibre.net> wrote:
> 
> > (eth0 is configured here after changing the config to force it to use
> > dhcp).  Since the interface is already "up", maybe that's the reason
> > the events aren't generated.  So I guess the question now is, what's
> > bringing up the interface before ifupdown does?  Could it be udev?  Or
> > something else in early boot or the initramfs?
> Definitely not udev. uevents for wired interfaces are generated when
> they appear and disappear, they do not follow link state.
> If eth1 is up but is not mentioned in interfaces then I have really no
> ideas, but if they are both configured in interfaces to use dhcp and
> after the boot they are up but dhcp did not work then the problem is
> dhcpd failing.
> I highly recommend that you boot the system with init=/bin/bash and
> manually run each rcS.d init script to see exactly what is happening.

Looks like it's fine until /etc/rcS.d/S16networking.  So definitely
not a udev issue.  Probably a bad interaction with ifupdown and
/dev/shm availability, though I'll need to do some more checking
to confirm and fix this.


Regards,
Roger

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