No networking at install time = no loopback?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:42:57PM +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote:

> I installed Warty on an old PC, destined to become a
> server/router/firewall for a small network. At install time I didn't
> have any network cards in the machine, so I skipped network setup.
> 
> Subsequently, I popped the cards in, and configured
> up /etc/network/interfaces to deal with them.
> 
> What I didn't immediately notice was that there was no loopback
> interface configured - i.e. no way to contact 127.0.0.1. This is
> possibly a bad thing - certainly it is bad in "normal" operation, but
> might not be bad in a "non-networked" machine.
> 
> It definitely is expected by nearly all Unix systems. If the 'main'
> Ubuntu apps don't expect loopback(i.e. use sockets for things like mysql
> and syslog [which seems to be fine]) then we're OK, and this is a caveat
> for non-default users, but I'm not convinced. Any comments?

I'm fairly certain this is fixed in Hoary, but if you could test with the
preview to confirm, that would help:

http://releases.ubuntu.com/hoary/

-- 
 - mdz