Re: Determining IP information for lo... failed

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 10:54 +1000, David Timms wrote:
> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > Peter Horst writes:
> > 
> >> When I reboot my FC5 machine, and when I run "service network 
> >> restart," I get the following error message:
> >>
> >> Bringing up loopback interface:
> >> Determining IP information for lo... failed.
> >>                                                            [FAILED]
> >>
> >> I don't what this means, and why it might be a bad thing.  All I
> know 
> >> for sure is that it slows down my boot process.
> >>
> >> Here're the contents of /etc/networking/devices/ifcfg-lo:
> If you meant /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ , I don't have an 
> ifcfg-lo at all. I just have ifcfg-eth0 in that directory. 
These files should be in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/



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