Upgrade messed up loopback networking

Trent Lloyd lathiat at bur.st
Mon Aug 22 15:52:10 CDT 2005


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
> 
> 
> -- 
> Celso Pinto <cpinto at yimports.com>



> -- 
> ubuntu-devel mailing list
> ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel


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



More information about the ubuntu-devel mailing list