On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 05:20:07PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 03:20:32PM -0700, Mahesh Padmanabhan wrote: > > Here is the error that I get (modified snippet from boot > > message below). > > > > I upgraded from a base slink distribution to potato. The upgrade > > process indicated that I should get rid of portmapper from the > > startup files manually. I did that but still this message won't > > go away. > > > > I am not even sure that portmapper causes this. > > This comes from /etc/init.d/network trying to setup things for the > loopback network device (lo). You can ignore it, or comment out the lo > related lines in that file.
Oh, forgot to also mention that this is because 2.2.x kernels do not require these commands, and 2.0.x did. It is not a serious error, and does not affect the machine at all. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
