On 10/19/05, 'Forum Post <<a href="mailto:ulist@gs1.ubuntuforums.org">ulist@gs1.ubuntuforums.org</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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.</blockquote><div> Acctualy it was me who #d out the loopback stuff. I was setting up wierless on the laptop did it by accedent. How comes it has such a devescating effect? Regards, Ben </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Try going to a text terminal (Ctrl-Alt-F2 should do), log in and do: Code: -------------------- sudo ifconfig -------------------- If this lists an entry for lo, everything is okay there and you might be having some other problem. Example loopback device: Code: -------------------- lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:<a href="http://127.0.0.1">127.0.0.1</a> Mask:<a href="http://255.0.0.0">255.0.0.0</a> 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) -------------------- If you need to create a loopback device: Code: -------------------- sudo ifup lo -------------------- If that doesn't work: Code: -------------------- sudo ifconfig lo up -------------------- Now restart GDM (Ubuntu) or KDM (Kubuntu): Code: -------------------- /etc/init.d/gdm restart -------------------- If that lets you log in just fine, make sure the following two lines are present somewhere in /etc/network/interfaces: Code: -------------------- auto lo iface lo inet loopback -------------------- You can try rebooting to see if those changes work. -- Psy-Q -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users </a> </blockquote></div> -- Ben Edwards - Bristol, UK, England WARNING:This email contained partisan views - dont ever accuse me of using the veneer of objectivity If you have a problem emailing me use <a href="http://www.gurtlush.org.uk/profiles.php?uid=4">http://www.gurtlush.org.uk/profiles.php?uid=4</a> (email address this email is sent from may be defunct)