thanks. that was perfect. :)

Elizabeth Barham wrote:

>solutrean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>  
>
>>The title sez it all. here are some particulars:
>>
>>athlon t-bird 750, all-scsi, 393M RAM, Debian testing.
>>
>>this is my first post to the list - I apologize for any improper netiquette.
>>I googled for this condition, but found nothing.
>>    
>>
>
>I had this for a while. Lets take a look at what is happening:
>
>>From /etc/init.d/networking:
>
>    stop)
>
>       [...]
>            echo -n "Deconfiguring network interfaces: "
>            ifdown -a
>           echo "done."
>       [...]
>
>>From ifdown(8):
>
>FILES
>       /etc/network/interfaces
>              Descriptions  of  all  the  network  interfaces the
>              system has.
>
>       /etc/network/ifstate
>              Current state of network interfaces.
>
>In my case, there were interfaces that were not up that ifstate said
>were up. Why? Because /etc/rcS.d/S39ifupdown was causing a
>segmentation fault. Why? Because I had compiled a newer version of
>libstdc++ when using the potato distribution and after upgrading to
>woody, applications were using the one I compiled in /usr/local and
>not the one that came with woody. Deleting my library in /usr/local/
>most likely cured it although I recall writing a script to do the
>following:
>
>As a quick work-around, try wiping out /etc/network/ifstate and see if
>you continue to have the problem (echo -n > /etc/network/ifstate)
>right before shutting down. If that works, you might want to add that
>to /etc/init.d/networking right before the "ifdown -a" part mentioned
>above.
>
>HTH,
>
>Elizabeth
>
>
>  
>





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