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ifupdown package

  1. Bug #377432
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 377432

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote : Re: [Bug 377432] Re: ifdown: failed to open statefile /var/run/network/ifstate:

On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 14:19 +0000, Bryce Thornton wrote:

> I ran into this yesterday.
>
> I had to manually create the /var/run/network directory and then
> manually create an "ifstate" file within it. I haven't rebooted since,
> so I can't confirm that it gets deleted upon reboot.
>
> The /etc/udev/rules.d/85-ifupdown.rules file didn't exist on my system,
> so that method of "fixing" the problem didn't apply.
>
Do you have a file of the same name in /lib/udev/rules.d ?

Scott
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