[ubuntu-za] localhost - unable to access
Robert Holm
robhh at absamail.co.za
Wed Apr 11 10:13:56 BST 2007
Something went wrong when I sent my reply. Here it is again.
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 22:43 +0100, Robert Schumann wrote:
> Robert Holm wrote:
> > Since installing Feisty beta I am unable to access localhost.
> This sounds a little like your networking (or part of it) is just not on
> for some reason. Try "ifconfig lo" and "ifconfig", to see what
> interfaces are available - and post the results here. Silly question:
> you have restarted since upgrading, have you?
>
These return the following:
rob at ubuntu:~$ ifconfig lo
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
LOOPBACK MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
rob at ubuntu:~$ ifconfig
rob at ubuntu:~$
As you can see, 127.0.0.1 is not listed. If I do the same thing in Edgy,
it is shown.
> If there's no confidential information in your
> /etc/networking/interfaces, it would help if you told us what's in that
> file.
>
File contents as follows:
/etc/network/interfaces contains the following:
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
auto eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp
auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
iface ppp0 inet ppp
provider ppp0
iface ppp0 inet ppp
provider myisp
auto ppp0
The file in Edgy , which works fine, is identical except that it does
not have the last three lines.
> ?
>
> Since I haven't yet offered any useful fixing advice, and you appear to
> have internet access, I'll point you to a page G**gle told me about, to
> do with troubleshooting network problems:
> http://www.lesbell.com.au/Home.nsf/b8ec57204f60dfcb4a2568c60014ed0f/ac6983ac71a95aebca256f3800170b4f?OpenDocument
>
I had investigated several pages on Google, but didn't find anything
relevant. Have had a look at the page you suggested, but this appears to
be about difficulties with the browser accessing the outside world, and
I don't have a problem with that.
Just by the way, please edify me on the use of * *, apparently in place
of " ".
Thanks
Robert H
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