Hello,
I just installed Devuan Daedalus. It connected to the net just fine, but
after installing a bunch of packages (too many to count), I rebooted the
system and the network is not brought up correctly.

I compared my current sysinit list of services to the new systems and
there isn't really anything standing out. I found /etc/init.d/network was
not executable. When I made it so and after re-executed it as root
(/etc/init.d/network start), I have full networking. This is repeatable
across reboots.

To be clear, I cannot ping my router when the net is down, but the iface
gets it's correct address and I can ping it as well as the lo interface.
The HW is an Intel I225-V rev 03. Even when the net is down the kernel
sees the interface HW and the light on my switch indicating that the
port is plugged in is lit.

Ping says:
% ping 192.168.1.1
Network is unreachable.

I run bootlogd, so I examined the network startup:
Thu Jul 3 XX:XX:XX 2025: Mounting local filesystems...done.
Thu Jul 3 XX:XX:XX 2025: Activating swapfile swap, if any...done.
Thu Jul 3 XX:XX:XX 2025: Cleaning up temporary files....
Thu Jul 3 XX:XX:XX 2025: Starting Setting kernel variables: sysctl.
Thu Jul 3 XX:XX:XX 2025: Configuring network interfaces...error: eth0 :
eth0: up cmd '/etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-autoipd' failed: returned 2
(Error: Device for nexthop is not up.
Thu Jul 3 XX:XX:XX 2025: )
Thu Jul 3 XX:XX:XX 2025: error: main exception: no ifaces found matching
given allow lists
Thu Jul 3 XX:XX:XX 2025: done.
Thu Jul 3 XX:XX:XX 2025: Cleaning up temporary files....
Thu Jul 3 XX:XX:XX 2025: Setting up ALSA...done.

When running:
% sudo /etc/init.d/network start
Configuring network interfaces...error: main exception: no ifaces found
matching given allow lists
done.
%

/etc/network/interfaces is below for your viewing pleasure.


I tried searching online without much success.
Any ideas?

Thanks!


#################################################
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
#################################################