Thanks for the solution. I disabled network inside init.d and the error went away.
Mahesh On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 05:33:53PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 05:20:07PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > 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. > > Oh, forgot to also mention that this is because 2.2.x kernels do not > require these commands, and 2.0.x did. It is not a serious error, and does > not affect the machine at all. > > -- > -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ > / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ > ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' > `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'