Bug#134279: ifupdown: new install, no loopback!
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > My new Woody install had no loopback device and no ping to localhost.
>
> They certainly should. I can't imagine why they wouldn't,
> though. Did you do an install with the normal boot-floppies (from
> woody/main/disks-i386/current), or what? Assuming you did, this bug's
> now reassigned to boot-floppies.
I built boot-floppies 3.0.19 from unstable, didn't realize that's where
the problem was. They have since said it was a known problem and fixed
in CVS.
> (for reference, the ifupdown postinst can't handle this since it can't
> tell whether this is really a new install -- in which case it should
> handle loopback; or if it's an upgrade of a really old or a hacked up
> system, in which case some other script (/etc/init.d/network, probably)
> is already handling it. boot-floppies, obviously, can tell this)
Ah-ha. Thanks!
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