5.3-stable doesn't ifconfig at startup
Ion-Mihai Tetcu
itetcu at people.tecnik93.com
Thu Feb 10 23:26:00 PST 2005
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 02:00:39 -0500 (EST)
Kenneth W Cochran <kwc at theworld.com> wrote:
> Hello -stable:
>
> Any idea(s) why (my) 5.3-stable (as of 9 February) isn't
> configuring the network interface or setting up the default route?
>
> I installed 5.3-release from CD and things worked fine.
> Then I updated the system sources (via cvsup) to RELENG_5 and
> went through {build,install}world/mergemaster/reboot as outlined
> in /usr/src/UPDATING and now I get no network interfaces
> configured & no default route set. I've tracked RELENG_4 for
> years with nothing like this ever happening. Kernel has not been
> reconfigured (yet), it's still GENERIC, albeit RELENG_5 now.
>
> In looking through the rc scripts, it appears that network
> interface(s) are being renamed but I see no references to this
> in, say, UPDATING or errara or other documentation. Any ideas?
mergemaster pilot error ?
If you didn't changed something in them I'd suggest wiping /etc/rc.d/*
and /etc/defaults/* and do a mergermaster -i
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