Hi everyone
My OpenSUSE 11.1 boot sequence pauses for 20 seconds (you can see the countdown in the log) when trying to start the DHCP4 client, and then fails to start it:
Setting up (localfs) network interfaces:
lo
lo IP address: 127.0.0.1/8
IP address: 127.0.0.2/8
lo
done eth0 device: Intel Corporation PRO/100 VE Network Connection (rev 02)
eth0 Starting DHCP4 client. . . . .
eth0 DHCP4 client NOT running
eth0
failedWaiting for mandatory devices: eth0 __NSC__
17 16 15 13 12 11 10 9 7 6 5 4 2 1 0
eth0 device: Intel Corporation PRO/100 VE Network Connection (rev 02)
eth0 DHCP4 client NOT running
eth0
failed eth0 interface could not be set up until now
failed
Setting up service (localfs) network . . . . . . . . . .failed
Anyone has any idea how to solve this?
The network seems to work fine, with no DHCP problems, but still it’s annoying!
The problem started to show up after I installed wicd, but I can’t say for sure the two things are related.
You could assign a static IP address to the box to prevent this entirely.
Eventually you must be getting an IP address and if you are is it coming
from this network device or another one? If another one is this one
redundant and if so can you disable it so it does not try to acquire an IP
address entirely? If it is this device but the DHCP process is just slow
perhaps work on tuning that side of things with your DHCP server. Post
the output to the following commands, please:
ip addr
ip route
cat /etc/resolv.conf
Good luck.
Sciamano wrote:
> Hi everyone
> My OpenSUSE 11.1 boot sequence pauses for 20 seconds (you can see the
> countdown in the log) when trying to start the DHCP4 client, and then
> fails to start it:
>
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> Setting up (localfs) network interfaces:
> lo
> lo IP address: 127.0.0.1/8
> IP address: 127.0.0.2/8
> lo
> done eth0 device: Intel Corporation PRO/100 VE Network Connection (rev 02)
> eth0 Starting DHCP4 client. . . . .
> eth0 DHCP4 client NOT running
> eth0
> failedWaiting for mandatory devices: eth0 NSC
> 17 16 15 13 12 11 10 9 7 6 5 4 2 1 0
> eth0 device: Intel Corporation PRO/100 VE Network Connection (rev 02)
> eth0 DHCP4 client NOT running
> eth0
> failed eth0 interface could not be set up until now
> failed
> Setting up service (localfs) network . . . . . . . . . .failed
> --------------------
>
> Anyone has any idea how to solve this?
> The network seems to work fine, with no DHCP problems, but still it’s
> annoying!
> The problem started to show up after I installed wicd, but I can’t say
> for sure the two things are related.
>
> Any help appreciated.
> Thanks!
>
>
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Hi, thanks for your reply.
I have two devices on board, a wireless card and an ethernet one.
I usually only use the wlan, but since it’s not 100% reliable I still keep the eth ‘alive’ just in case I need to use the net when/if the wifi does not work.
I guess I could manually assign an IP to the ethernet card, although that would prevent me to use it with different LANs (I use it at home and at work, and they have different addresses). Still, I will try this solution and then manually change the IP when I need to.
Here are the outputs requested:
luca@amilo:~> ip addr
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 brd 127.255.255.255 scope host lo
inet 127.0.0.2/8 brd 127.255.255.255 scope host secondary lo
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN qlen 1000
link/ether 00:16:36:ca:db:0f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wmaster0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 1000
link/ieee802.11 00:18:de:dd:aa:17 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
link/ether 00:18:de:dd:aa:17 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.1.3/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global wlan0
inet6 fe80::218:deff:fedd:aa17/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
5: pan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN
link/ether e2:39:70:42:de:07 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
luca@amilo:~> ip route
192.168.1.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.3
169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link
127.0.0.0/8 dev lo scope link
default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlan0
luca@amilo:~> cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Generated by dhcpcd for interface wlan0
search local.lan
nameserver 192.168.1.1
Setting eth0 with a fixed IP worked, now the boot is as quick as before.
I guess I’ll keep it like this and switch to DHCP only when absolutely needed.
