Bug#58944: multiple system oddities after upgrade to frozen 23 Feb 2000

[Diab Jerius <dj@head-cfa.harvard.edu>]

On 25 Feb, Ian Redfern wrote:
> Have you got your loopback interface configured? You don't say which boot disks
> you used but those up to 2.2.7 could leave you without a loopback interface - try
> /sbin/ifconfig and see if lo is listed. If not, do
> /sbin/ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
> /sbin/ifconfig lo up
> and see if your problem is still there - it worked for me.
> 
> Ian Redfern.
> 
> 

That did the trick.

This turns out to be another manifestation of bug 59004.  The update of
netbase produced a message implying that one could do away with
/etc/init.d/network.  I did that, and the loopback interface was no
longer being configured.  I didn't make the connection between the
events.

Thanks,
Diab 
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