I had the same problem.  I did an emerge sync and emerge -uDva world. 
There was a new version of baselayout from the one this morning when I
did an update so I installed it and everything works fine now.

On 9/1/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> On Sep 1, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> 
> > Hello!
> >
> > Since recently, I cannot bring up the loopback device at
> > the first attempt. Running net.lo fails like this:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo /etc/init.d/net.lo start
> >  * Starting lo
> >  *   Bringing up lo
> >  *     127.0.0.1/8
> > SIOCSIFADDR: File exists
> > SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address
> > SIOCSIFNETMASK: Cannot assign requested address
> > SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Cannot assign requested address
> > SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested  
> > address                             [ !! ]
> um, why are you having to start loopback by hand?  does it fail to  
> start on boot?
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