On Sat, 06 Jun 2009, Raj Mathur wrote:
On Saturday 06 Jun 2009, lists@pavri.net wrote:
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Do you have a line like the following in /etc/network/interfaces?
iface lo inet loopback
Yes, finally figured it out myself this morning :) the file was empty. Had to put in the line from man interfaces. This was definitely after reading Raju's mail where he correctly diagnosed that lo was not coming up. Thanks !!
What I can't understand is, why was that file empty in the first place. As I said in an earlier mail, the debian install had barfed at not finding a network interface. I had to go into expert install and skip that step. Could this be flaky hardware ?
Thanks,
Sharukh