Re: loopback-interface problem in etch

[Dietrich Hentschel <dietrich.hentschel@freenet.de>]

Pieter Agten wrote:
> Dietrich Hentschel schreef:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have installed  etch from the scratch on my i386 (over the net with 
> > debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso from CD-boot) . My Problem ist, that 
> > I can't configure my loopback interface correctly and as an 
> > consequence that I can't start and stop the portmapper. Here the 
> > error-message from "ifup lo":
> >
> > SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> > lo: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> > lo: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
> > Failed to bring up lo.
> >
> > I have tried to install etch on my notebook and desktop. Always the 
> > same error. With eth0 interface (the only interface card) I did not 
> > have problems.
> > Can someone help me?
> >
> > Dietrich
> If you compiled your own kernel, did you make sure you have enabled 
> support for the loopback interface?
Thank you for help.  I didn't have compiled my own kernel, it was 2.6.16 
from testing.
But it's o.k. now with the newest testing downloads (etch). I think it 
was a bug in udev that is fixed now.

Dietrich