Thanks, Adrian, That did the trick.
I know the risks of running unstable and I'm willing to take them to get the more up-to-date packages. Actually, I run the stable dist on a somewhat more mission critical machine. Chris On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Chris Gray wrote: > > > I'm running the unstable dist and a recent upgrade seems to have destroyed > > information needed for my network interfaces. Running ifconfig displays > > the proper details for eth0 and lo but running ifup gives a "Bad file > > descriptor" error. The /etc/network/interfaces file is intact but under > > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/ there is only all and default and no eth0 or lo > > anymore. > > > > How do I regenerate these? What is the source of this problem? Can I > > net-tools version 1.58-1 was broken > > Install net-tools != 1.58-1 > > > keep it from happening again? > > Don't run unstable - it's normal that unstable sometimes breaks. > > > adTHANKSvance, > > Chris > > cu, > Adrian > > -- > > Nicht weil die Dinge schwierig sind wagen wir sie nicht, > sondern weil wir sie nicht wagen sind sie schwierig. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >