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Re: Network problem



Jason Davies wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Has anyone seen this problem before? When I try and enable the network (on bootup) I get error messages. Here is what I get when typing these commands:
> 
> ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
> SIOCSIFADDR: Bad file descriptor
> lo: unknown interface: Bad file descriptor
> 
> ifconfig eth0 up
> eth0: unknown interface: Bad file descriptor
> 

You are having the same problem that others have had today, but posted
under a different subject heading.  Apparently there is a bug in the
recent release of net-tools.  If you downgrade to the version in
"testing", everything should be resolved.


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Brian J. Stults
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Sociology
University at Albany - SUNY
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