Re: loopback interface down, sob ;-(
I recently had something similar. It turned out to be that I had two
versions of ifconfig installed. One was in /sbin/ifconfig, the other in
/usr/bin/ifconfig. The 'correct' ifconfig was the one in
/sbin/ifconfig. It seems that I had installed the inetutils-tools
package which caused the bogus version in /usr/bin. Removing the
package solved the problem. The 'correct version of ifconfig was in the
net-tools package.
Are you able to bring up the loopback interface manually, ie:
ifconfig lo up 127.0.0.1
What does your /etc/network/interfaces look like?
Lou
* A. L. Meyers <me@privacy.net> [2003-12-14 07:19]:
> Hi! After all the publicity about the breakins to the Debian servers,
> I decided to try to secure my systems better and, alas, not only
> failed in the process but trashed my network as well. The loopback
> interface lo is down, unreachable (even as root) and ping fails.
> Occasionally I get messages that only 1 address is allowed but I
> cannot find the right files to clean this up. The problems arose
> after installing bastille, then removing it using
>
> apt-get --purge remove bastille
>
> Help much appreciated.
>
> Lux
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