[mythtv-users] gentoo baselayout 2 - restart ing mythbackend.. on internet restart

[Calvin Harrigan]

On 6/13/2011 11:34 PM, John Drescher wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Allan Klinbail<sonofzev at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>> I have a long running mythtv backend running on gentoo that is also used
>> as my router/domain controller/firewall e.t.c.... A recent update has
>> moved the system to baselayout 2 and a disturbing behaviour has started
>> impacting mythtv seriously..
>>
>> I have a fairly dodgy ppp link due to old wiring in my building so I
>> have a ppp setting that resets the connection after failed LCP
>> requests...
>>
>> Until now that had no impact on any other service ..
>>
>> Now it restarts almost every network service running and that includes
>> nfs, samba and mythbackend... .
>>
>> It would make sense if these reset on a restart of eth1 (my internal
>> network interface) but they seem to be linked to both internal and
>> external interfaces..
>>
>> Does anyone know how to stop this behaviour (I'm hoping someone else
>> running myth on gentoo has come across this recently)
>
> I have updated to baselayout2 and openrc in 2008 I believe. I have not
> experienced any disturbing behavior from that..
>
> John
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Having had some issues updating to the new base layout, I think the 
problem might be in the script that you/ppp are using to bounce the 
interface.  In my case the script update didn't take properly and it 
caused some issues. The /init.d/net.ethx entries and /etc/conf.d/net 
were not converted/configured properly. I would verify that these files 
were configured/converted properly and that the script used by ppoe is 
referencing the right network interface and not the base interface 
that's linked to by the net.ethx soft links.