From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010725 Description of problem: I've just upgraded a 7.1 Version to a 7.1.93 one. I cant start network. I've the error messages [root@jmlmx root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start Setting network parameters: [ OK ] Bringing up interface lo: Cannot open netlink socket: Address family not supported by protocol Device does not seem to be present, delaying lo initialization. modprobe: Can't locate module lo [FAILED] Bringing up interface eth0: Cannot open netlink socket: Address family not supported by protocol modprobe: Device does not seem to be present, delaying eth0 initialization. Can't locate module eth0 [FAILED] Here is t[root@jmlmx root]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo DEVICE=lo IPADDR=127.0.0.1 NETMASK=255.0.0.0 NETWORK=127.0.0.0 # If you're having problems with gated making 127.0.0.0/8 a martian, # you can change this to something else (255.255.255.255, for example) BROADCAST=127.255.255.255 ONBOOT=yes NAME=loopback he /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo It looks like anothe bug but my Redhat-config-network version is [root@jmlmx root]# rpm -q redhat-config-network redhat-config-network-0.6.7-1 So it should work !!!! How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Just start the network 2. 3. Actual Results: Same result Expected Results: network started Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 50903 ***
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