Package: udev Version: 0.100-2 Severity: important The "lo" loopback network interface does not come up when I boot. The eth0 and eth1 interfaces come up correctly. I have purged hotplug.
# 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) # ifup lo # ifconfig lo lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING 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) My /etc/network/interfaces contains auto lo iface lo inet loopback allow-hotplug eth1 iface eth1 inet static address kooka-shark broadcast broadcast-shark netmask 255.255.255.0 down ifconfig $IFACE 0.0.0.0 down up /usr/sbin/dhcpd3 -q $IFACE down test -f /var/run/dhcpd.pid && kill `cat /var/run/dhcpd.pid` allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp pre-up rm -f /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.leases pre-up /etc/local/firewall --log daemon.alert $IFACE post-down /etc/local/firewall --log daemon.alert --down $IFACE down ifconfig $IFACE 0.0.0.0 down My /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules contains SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:09:5b:22:f2:43", NAME="eth0" SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:40:05:e2:ea:e9", NAME="eth1" Does anybody know why I don't have a lo network interface? thanks Stuart -- Package-specific info: -- /etc/udev/rules.d/: /etc/udev/rules.d/: total 8 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2006-09-10 17:38 020_permissions.rules -> ../permissions.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2005-10-14 11:25 025_libgphoto2.rules -> ../libgphoto2.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2006-08-05 10:07 025_libsane.rules -> ../libsane.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2006-09-10 17:38 udev.rules -> ../udev.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2006-09-10 17:38 z20_persistent-input.rules -> ../persistent-input.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2006-09-10 17:38 z20_persistent.rules -> ../persistent.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2144 2006-09-25 23:29 z25_persistent-cd.rules -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 544 2006-10-01 22:34 z25_persistent-net.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 2006-09-10 17:38 z45_persistent-net-generator.rules -> ../persistent-net-generator.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2006-09-10 17:38 z50_run.rules -> ../run.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2006-09-10 17:38 z55_hotplug.rules -> ../hotplug.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 2005-08-03 21:32 z60_alsa-utils.rules -> ../alsa-utils.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2005-09-22 23:17 z60_hdparm.rules -> ../hdparm.rules lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2006-09-10 17:38 z75_cd-aliases-generator.rules -> ../cd-aliases-generator.rules -- /sys/: /sys/block/dm-0/dev /sys/block/dm-1/dev /sys/block/dm-2/dev /sys/block/dm-3/dev /sys/block/fd0/dev /sys/block/hda/dev /sys/block/hda/hda1/dev /sys/block/hda/hda2/dev /sys/block/hda/hda3/dev /sys/block/hdc/dev /sys/block/hdd/dev /sys/block/hde/dev /sys/block/hde/hde1/dev /sys/block/hde/hde3/dev /sys/block/hde/hde4/dev /sys/block/hdf/dev /sys/block/hdf/hdf1/dev /sys/block/hdf/hdf2/dev /sys/block/hdf/hdf3/dev /sys/block/hdg/dev /sys/block/hdg/hdg1/dev /sys/block/ram0/dev /sys/block/ram1/dev /sys/block/ram10/dev /sys/block/ram11/dev /sys/block/ram12/dev /sys/block/ram13/dev /sys/block/ram14/dev /sys/block/ram15/dev /sys/block/ram2/dev /sys/block/ram3/dev /sys/block/ram4/dev /sys/block/ram5/dev /sys/block/ram6/dev /sys/block/ram7/dev /sys/block/ram8/dev /sys/block/ram9/dev /sys/class/drm/card0/dev /sys/class/input/input0/event0/dev /sys/class/input/input1/event1/dev /sys/class/input/input2/event2/dev /sys/class/input/input2/mouse0/dev /sys/class/input/input2/ts0/dev /sys/class/input/mice/dev /sys/class/misc/agpgart/dev /sys/class/misc/device-mapper/dev /sys/class/misc/hpet/dev /sys/class/misc/psaux/dev /sys/class/misc/rtc/dev /sys/class/misc/snapshot/dev /sys/class/sound/controlC0/dev /sys/class/sound/controlC1/dev /sys/class/sound/hwC1D0/dev /sys/class/sound/mixer/dev /sys/class/sound/mixer1/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0p/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC1D0c/dev /sys/class/sound/pcmC1D0p/dev /sys/class/sound/timer/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev1.1/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev1.2/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev2.1/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev3.1/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev4.1/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev4.4/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev4.5/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev4.6/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev5.1/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev5.2/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev5.3/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev5.5/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev5.6/dev /sys/class/usb_device/usbdev5.7/dev -- Kernel configuration: -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages udev depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 1.30.28-2 SELinux shared libraries ii libvolume-id0 0.100-2 libvolume_id shared library ii lsb-base 3.1-17 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip udev recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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