Bug#637435: ifupdown: interfaces are not brought up anymore

2011-08-11 Thread Adrian Siemieniak
There is something going on with recent update - my server failed to bring up dhcp interfaces too. It shows up that it's because lo. /etc/init.d/interfaces reports that lo is already up (but it's not configured) - dhcp fails to start (since no 127.0.0.1). So shutdown/startup interface cleanup is

Bug#637435: ifupdown: interfaces are not brought up anymore

2011-08-11 Thread Adrian Siemieniak
Ehh, I wanted to write fast ... and I've made my last post a complete rubbish - sorry. From beginning. After today restart, server did not boot up properly (hang - on configuring dhcp interfaces). I've started to look what's going on, I thought it's perhaps because of some changes in kernel

Bug#637435: ifupdown: interfaces are not brought up anymore

2011-08-11 Thread Adrian Siemieniak
It's plain root partition (no lvm) sauron:/etc/network# ls -ld run drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 11 2011 run sauron:/etc/network# ls -l run total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46 Aug 11 2011 ifstate This server has been upgraded for many years (more then 10 years on unstable now) - so quite often