Upgrade messed up loopback networking

Scott James Remnant scott at ubuntu.com
Mon Aug 22 19:22:18 CDT 2005


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
> 
That last line is telling ifrename to rename the loopback device (no MAC
address).  Try removing that line (the eth1 one).

Did you add that line?  If the installer did, that could be a d-i bug
<g>

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
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