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geekinthesticks

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Registered: 2011-09-21

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[solved] dhcp Unable to Assign Request at Boot

I run several arch VM's under qemu. I keep what I call a "base" server image that I can clone to make other new servers. With the release of a new install image and various other changes, I decided to create a new "base image" from scratch. This has gone fine except dhcp can't assign an address at boot:

localhost dhcpcd[369]: eth0: sendmsg: Cannot assign requested address

If I load dhcpcd manually, it works fine. It all works fine on my older arch "base image" and other arch servers I have.

In rc.conf I have:

interface="eth0"
address=
netmask=
gateway=

Any ideas as to why this might be happening. The above error is the only one in the log.

Last edited by geekinthesticks (2012-08-04 07:21:25)

geekinthesticks

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From: England

Registered: 2011-09-21

Posts: 143

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Re: [solved] dhcp Unable to Assign Request at Boot

Solved - very simple fubar. I had two lines in rc.conf specifying the DEAMONS array. The second one didn't contain network. Gun, foot, shoot:)