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. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'