As I upgraded from slink to potato,
I believe an interactive comment mentioned that 2.2.* kernels
(I run kernel 2.2.16) need no explicit loopback.
Because of my selection, the upgrade script produced a file
/etc/network/interfaces
with all lines commented.
In particular, this "interfaces" file had the following line
# iface lo inet loopback
not
iface lo inet loopback
UNCOMMENTING THIS LINE GOT MY SYSTEM WORKING AGAIN.
Before this, I could no longer use my modem for ppp connnections,
my domain server failed lookups,
and for 5 hours I concentrated on failure of the package nfs-common.
In particular, in the script /etc/init.d/nfs-common,
a line with /sbin/rpc.lockd failed.
Later, I thought my local bind/named was failing from the upgrade.
This extensive failure I saw arose, as I said above, from the default
/etc/network/interfaces.
I first saw this error as an NFS problem,
since booting hung there for about three minutes.
However, from the boot log in /var/log/messages,
Jul 19 21:17:06 rabbit kernel: Adding Swap: 128484k swap-space
(priority -1)
Jul 19 21:17:06 rabbit kernel: Adding Swap: 128484k swap-space
(priority -2)
Jul 19 21:17:06 rabbit kernel: eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#0
link partner capability of 05e1.
Jul 19 21:17:06 rabbit kernel: RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
Jul 19 21:17:06 rabbit kernel: neighbour table overflow
Jul 19 21:17:07 rabbit kernel: neighbour table overflow
Jul 19 21:17:11 rabbit kernel: RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
Jul 19 21:17:36 rabbit last message repeated 2 times
Jul 19 21:17:56 rabbit kernel: portmap: server localhost
not responding, timed out
Jul 19 21:17:56 rabbit kernel: RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
Jul 19 21:18:26 rabbit last message repeated 3 times
Jul 19 21:18:46 rabbit kernel: portmap: server localhost
not responding, timed out
Jul 19 21:18:46 rabbit kernel: lockd_up: makesock failed, error=-5
Jul 19 21:18:46 rabbit kernel: RPC: sendmsg returned error 101
Jul 19 21:19:16 rabbit last message repeated 3 times
Jul 19 21:19:36 rabbit kernel: portmap: server localhost
not responding, timed out
Jul 19 21:19:37 rabbit kernel: neighbour table overflow
