Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 5292
lo not initializing on bootup
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:51 EDT
I installed the following rpm's from your web site. ampd-3.0beta5-8.i386.rpm telnet-0.10-29.i386.rpm xscreensaver-3.09-4.i386.rpm net-tools-1.52-2.i386.rpm wu-ftp-2.5.0-5.6.0.i386.rpm Upon bootup lo is not initializing which caused nfsd and other nfs related processes to fail. If I booted into single user and config'd lo manually everything worked. I am running RH 6.0 with the 2.2.5-22 kernel. I found the cause of the problem. During the upgrade of one of these rpm's the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo file was replaced or overwritten. The new file contained only the line BOOTPROTO=none and a new file ifcfg- as created. I modified ifcfg-lo adding NETWORK, IPADDR, DEVICE, ONBOOT, BROADCAST, NETMASK entries. This seems to have cleared the problem. Please let me know if you can suggest a cause of this file being overwritten. Thank-you.
From what I can tell none of the rpm's listed install that file or even have internal scripts to modify it. I have been unable to replicate the problem in our test lab. The only package that touches that file is the initscripts package and it has ifcfg-lo marked as a config file which means it should be backed up in the same directory as ifcfg-lo.rpmsave if any changes were made to that file.