On Thu, 13.01.11 22:59, Matthew Miller (mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > For some reason, boot is hanging with today's rawhide update -- I get stuck > at "Bringing up loopback interface". Oddly, if I boot into runlevel 1, lo is > there just fine. (But if I telinit 5 from there, it immediately tries to > bring it up again and hangs.) Is anyone else seeing this or is it a one-off > quirk? Not sure if this is helpful in any way, but just wanted to mention this here: since the configuration of the loopback device is basically static and more an API feature of the OS than subject to configuration by the administrator we actually configure the loopback device in C code from PID 1 as one of the first things during early boot. The iface will already be up (for both IPv4 and IPv6) at the time we spawn the first process. In the long run network configuration systems such as NM or the old network scripts should probably stop touching the interface at all and just assume that it is there and working. In fact, every process on the system may rely on that now. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
