Network down, reboot fixes, update

[Carl Fink <carlf@fink.to>]

Further investigation shows that web connections work fine.  What
isn't working is Privoxy, which fails to start up with the message

Fatal error: can't bind to 127.0.0.1:8118: because Cannot assign
requested address

What seems to be happening is that lo isn't working.  "ifconfig lo"
reports:

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:98972 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:98972 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:122340835 (116.6 MiB)  TX bytes:122340835 (116.6 MiB)

However, attempts to ping localhost or 127.0.0.1 time out.  I think
lo failing would explain both fetchmail and privoxy failing.

However, I don't know why lo would fail ... wait.  "inet6 addr"?  Is
lo listening only to IPv6?
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Carl Fink             carl@fink.to        
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