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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ 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? > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Sarpy Sam Thoughts from the Middle of Nowhere http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list