Re: [gentoo-user] loopback device (lo, net.lo) cannot be brought up sucessfully at first try: SIOCSIFADDR: File exists/SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address ...

[John Jolet]

On Sep 1, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Hello!

Since recently, I cannot bring up the loopback device at
the first attempt. Running net.lo fails like this:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/net.lo start
 * Starting lo
 *   Bringing up lo
 *     127.0.0.1/8
SIOCSIFADDR: File exists
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address
SIOCSIFNETMASK: Cannot assign requested address
SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Cannot assign requested address
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested  
address                             [ !! ]
um, why are you having to start loopback by hand?  does it fail to  
start on boot?
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