From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EBAHw-0001Q8-9e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2005 12:04:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j82BxkxQ021218; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 11:59:46 GMT Received: from hetzner.email-server.info (new.email-server.info [213.133.109.44]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j82Bs741010622 for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 11:54:07 GMT Received: from my.email-server.info (muedsl-82-207-222-209.citykom.de [82.207.222.209]) by hetzner.email-server.info (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CF5C274400 for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 13:56:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by my.email-server.info (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11EFF7C084 for ; Fri, 2 Sep 2005 13:56:42 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <43183DF9.4020505@mid.email-server.info> Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 13:56:41 +0200 From: Alexander Skwar User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050803) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] loopback device (lo, net.lo) cannot be brought up sucessfully at first try: SIOCSIFADDR: File exists/SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address ... References: <4317795E.9050603@mid.email-server.info> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ccb41a06-7574-41d9-b75f-fddf09a8459a X-Archives-Hash: 65ad9fbcac57e2e8ba6fa91bd032cb52 John Jolet schrieb: > On Sep 1, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Alexander Skwar wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> Since recently, I cannot bring up the loopback device at >> the first attempt. Running net.lo fails like this: >> >> alexander@blatt ~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/net.lo start >> * Starting lo >> * Bringing up lo >> * 127.0.0.1/8 >> SIOCSIFADDR: File exists >> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address >> SIOCSIFNETMASK: Cannot assign requested address >> SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Cannot assign requested address >> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested >> address [ !! ] > um, why are you having to start loopback by hand? does it fail to > start on boot? Exactly. Alexander Skwar -- An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose. -- A.P. Herbert -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list