Package: ifupdown Version: 0.7 Severity: normal Hello,
interfaces(5) entails that the following is valid: iface lo inet6 loopback But such an interface always fails: $ sudo ifup lo RTNETLINK answers: File exists Failed to bring up lo. But it isn't necessary anyhow: $ ip addr list dev lo 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever Changing the interface back to "inet" from "inet6" fixes the issue, and gets the exact same config as above. Ross -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (49, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages ifupdown depends on: ii dpkg 1.16.3 ii initscripts 2.88dsf-22.1 ii iproute 20120521-2 ii libc6 2.13-33 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian6 ifupdown recommends no packages. Versions of packages ifupdown suggests: ii isc-dhcp-client [dhcp-client] 4.2.2.dfsg.1-5 ii net-tools 1.60-24.1 ii ppp 2.4.5-5.1+b1 pn rdnssd <none> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org