Upgrade messed up loopback networking

Celso Pinto cpinto at yimports.com
Mon Aug 22 16:10:31 CDT 2005


I tried to bring-up my wlan interface (eth1) and it seems that the
loopback interface came up. By this I mean, eth1 has the 127.0.0.1
address...

This is getting really weird.

Cheers,
Celso


On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 22:03 +0100, Celso Pinto wrote:
> /etc/iftab content is:
> # This file assigns persistent names to network interfaces.  See
> iftab(5).
> eth0 mac 00:c0:9f:a2:98:fa
> eth1 mac 00:00:00:00:00:00
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 04:52 +0800, Trent Lloyd wrote:
> > 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
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> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st>
> > Bur.st Networking Inc.
> > 
-- 
Celso Pinto <cpinto at yimports.com>
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