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You might be a victim of Ubuntu forgetting to configure the loopback
network device when it boots. You can try manually bringing up the
loopback device, and if that works, add an option to
/etc/network/interfaces to bring it up automatically on every system
boot.

Try going to a text terminal (Ctrl-Alt-F2 should do), log in and do:


Code:
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    sudo ifconfig
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If this lists an entry for lo, everything is okay there and you might
be having some other problem.

Example loopback device:


Code:
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    lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
  UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
  RX packets:48556 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:48556 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
  RX bytes:7970086 (7.6 MiB)  TX bytes:7970086 (7.6 MiB)
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If you need to create a loopback device:


Code:
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    sudo ifup lo
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If that doesn't work:


Code:
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    sudo ifconfig lo up
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Now restart GDM (Ubuntu) or KDM (Kubuntu):


Code:
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    /etc/init.d/gdm restart
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If that lets you log in just fine, make sure the following two lines
are present somewhere in /etc/network/interfaces:

Code:
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  auto lo
  iface lo inet loopback
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You can try rebooting to see if those changes work.


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Psy-Q