Nevermind about my simple fix of moving the order in /etc/rcS.d loopback still doesnt come up most of the time. I have to switch to a terminal, login, bring up loopback, restart gdm then switch to gdm.
loopback is supposed to come up on it's on but the tmpfs for /var/run and /var/lock are not letting it. I have the following in /etc/network/interfaces auto lo iface lo inet loopback -- missing /var/run in root partition fails many services https://launchpad.net/bugs/51452 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
