From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i586) Description of problem: I am not sure what triggered it, but i had installed the rh72beta with dhcp networking yesterday at the installfest, all was fine. Coming home had to change this to fixed IP at the local LAN. I found the utility 'neat' (which is a great improvement, as it looks like one can now reconfigure the network a lot easier). I was already (in retrospect surprised) lo was not prsent on the list, so perhaps this bugreport is still complex to figure out what happened (thus I'm not keen on trying to reproduce it :-). I changed the parameters, i believe I then did "ifup eth0" at which point X simply vanished..... (xfree4). Only upon an unrelated reboot did i notice that lo was not present, i manually constructed something that appears to work. Perhaps there is an rpm method that will do the same trick...Possibly related is that at some point before the unrelated reboot, when I had not found out lo was missing, my routing had disappeared. route only showed one entry for eth0, the routing entry to the GW had disappeared too.. How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1.neat 2. 3. Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 50903 ***