Upgrade messed up loopback networking

[Trent Lloyd]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 09:49:05PM +0100, Celso Pinto wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I did an upgrade today and noticed that loopback networking is messed
> up. The lo interface doesn't go up.
> 
> Using ifup lo gives the following result:
> SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> lo: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> lo: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> Failed to bring up lo.
> 
> 
> Can this be related to hotplug? I noticed during previous boots that
> something kept trying to rename lo to eth0, and it seems that this time
> it finally did it.

Check your /etc/iftab

> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Cheers,
> Celso
> 
> 
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> Celso Pinto <cpinto at yimports.com>



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Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st>
Bur.st Networking Inc.