On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Anthony Towns wrote: > > My new Woody install had no loopback device and no ping to localhost. > > They certainly should. I can't imagine why they wouldn't, > though. Did you do an install with the normal boot-floppies (from > woody/main/disks-i386/current), or what? Assuming you did, this bug's > now reassigned to boot-floppies.
I built boot-floppies 3.0.19 from unstable, didn't realize that's where the problem was. They have since said it was a known problem and fixed in CVS. > (for reference, the ifupdown postinst can't handle this since it can't > tell whether this is really a new install -- in which case it should > handle loopback; or if it's an upgrade of a really old or a hacked up > system, in which case some other script (/etc/init.d/network, probably) > is already handling it. boot-floppies, obviously, can tell this) Ah-ha. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
