As above. This patch fixes it: --- /tmp/ifup-aliases Sat Oct 9 08:52:10 1999 +++ ifup-aliases Sat Aug 28 18:15:38 1999 @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ #!/bin/sh +if [ ! -f /proc/sys/net/core/net_alias_max ]; then + exit 0 +fi # adds aliases of device $1 if [ "$1" = "" ]; then
The messages are because linuxconf's alias detection is fairly broken; it's worked around by commenting out the linuxconf specific portions. This is what's done in 6.1. However, the workaround you suggest is probably a good idea - we'll look at that for a future initscripts release.