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From: Sarpy Sam <sarpy.sam@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: loopback device (lo, net.lo) cannot be brought up sucessfully at first try: SIOCSIFADDR: File exists/SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address ...
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:10:30 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b69857cf050901171045466566@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FBC5A532-BC61-4FA6-8A16-59EB1DEC9B5D@jolet.net>

I had the same problem.  I did an emerge sync and emerge -uDva world. 
There was a new version of baselayout from the one this morning when I
did an update so I installed it and everything works fine now.

On 9/1/05, John Jolet <john@jolet.net> wrote:
> 
> 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?
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> 
> 


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-02  0:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-01 21:57 [gentoo-user] loopback device (lo, net.lo) cannot be brought up sucessfully at first try: SIOCSIFADDR: File exists/SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address Alexander Skwar
2005-09-01 22:06 ` John Jolet
2005-09-02  0:10   ` Sarpy Sam [this message]
2005-09-02 11:56   ` Alexander Skwar
2005-09-02  3:23 ` Octavio Ruiz (Ta^3)
2005-09-02 11:58   ` Alexander Skwar

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