On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 12:37:24PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 19:43 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > Steve Langasek wrote: > > > <grr> IIRC, the amd64 buildd runs in a vserver, which does nasty > > > things to how interfaces are seen from userspace. This may be a > > > symptom of that.
> > It's possible to reproduce the problem locally if you shut down all your > > interfaces (/sbin/ifconfig shows nothing) before building. This is > > clearly a bug in the upstream configury. A local config.cache override > > might be in order. > I agree. Suggestions as to how we can detect that we can detect > interfaces, but that there are none, might be acceptable. > That said, a system that can't even report that the loopback device > exists is a pretty poor system... AIUI, under vserver you don't even have a loopback device :/ -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]