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potentials

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Registered: 2004-01-04

Posts: 130

network not starting at bootup at all

When I first installed 0.7 and configured the network (loaded relevant drivers and enabled dhcp), the network would start probably every startup. After a several weeks (maybe because of updating arch) the network script (/etc/rc.d/network) fails every single startup. Repeatively trying to run the script manually after that would also fail for like an hour but eventualy succeeds.

Here's the error I find in /var/log/errors.log

Apr  6 02:43:50 localhost dhcpcd[3424]: timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response

Note that I've tried tons of livecds and all have no problem getting the network running.

This has been very very annoying and I would greatly appretiate help. Imagine having to wait a couple of hours after each restart to get your net access and image rebooting several times day.

timmy

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From: Christiansfeld - Denmark

Registered: 2005-01-25

Posts: 45

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Re: network not starting at bootup at all

if you do:
dhcpc eth0
What does it say then?
Are you sure the live CDs is using the same driver ?

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potentials

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Registered: 2004-01-04

Posts: 130

Re: network not starting at bootup at all

[root@localhost potentials]# dhcpd eth0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server V3.0.2
Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

** You must add a global ddns-update-style statement to /etc/dhcpd.conf.
   To get the same behaviour as in 3.0b2pl11 and previous
   versions, add a line that says "ddns-update-style ad-hoc;"
   Please read the dhcpd.conf manual page for more information. **

If you did not get this software from ftp.isc.org, please
get the latest from ftp.isc.org and install that before
requesting help.

If you did get this software from ftp.isc.org and have not
yet read the README, please read it before requesting help.
If you intend to request help from the dhcp-server@isc.org
mailing list, please read the section on the README about
submitting bug reports and requests for help.

Please do not under any circumstances send requests for
help directly to the authors of this software - please
send them to the appropriate mailing list as described in
the README file.

exiting.

As with the driver, the same driver have been working with arch before. Had no problems with archlinux 0.6 and no problems with the initial 0.7 install.

phrakture

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From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: network not starting at bootup at all

it's

# dhcpcd eth0

dhcpd starts the dhcp daemon 8)

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puntmuts

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Registered: 2005-02-22

Posts: 138

Re: network not starting at bootup at all

dhcpcd does start a daemon as well . The difference is a server or a client so:
dhcpd - will start the server daemon
dhcpcd - will start the client daemon

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Done. Goodbye.

potentials

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Registered: 2004-01-04

Posts: 130

Re: network not starting at bootup at all

# dhcpcd eth0

takes a while and then outputs absolutely nothing.

mctavish

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From: Australia

Registered: 2004-03-22

Posts: 48

Re: network not starting at bootup at all

Edit: Well I thought I could contribute here but then I read the posts more carefully and decided I was full of crap! Sorry!

vladuz976

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From: Venice, CA

Registered: 2005-11-04

Posts: 108

Re: network not starting at bootup at all

can someone look at this thread? http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … highlight=

i've been having similar issues getting the network up. at boot it doens't work the /etc/rc.conf and /etc/rc.d/network files seems ok. yet, with

#dhcpcd eth0

manually, it starts up.
any ideas what could be wrong?
thanks