Comment 32 for bug 6841

Thomas Hood wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 11:35, Helge Hafting wrote:
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>>Thomas Hood wrote:
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>>>Did the "ifdown lo ; ifup lo" trick work?
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>>You mean the "ifdown -a ; ifup lo" trick?
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>>It does not work. I was pretty sure of that, but I now
>>tested it because you asked again, and it did not help.
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>No, I mean the trick wherein you do:
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> ifdown lo
> ifup lo
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>just before you do
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> ifdown -a
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>That is: after the change, /etc/init.d/networking contains the
>following lines in the "stop" method:
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> echo -n "Deconfiguring network interfaces..."
> ifdown lo
> ifup lo
> ifdown -a
> echo "done."
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>
My misunderstanding then. I tried this, and put
"echo" statement between the others. I found that
the initial "ifdown lo" hangs, so the rest does not happen.

There is something strange going on that makes ifdown hang
during reboot, but not at other times. I will make another trace
that traces child processes too.

>This was a second, different, suggestion from the first one I made.
>If you didn't receive that message for some reason then please note
>that you can review this whole conversation at
>http://bugs.debian.org/256680. The message containing my second
>suggestion had i.d. <1088495900.7371.561.camel@thanatos>.
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Thanks. I've had a little email problem, now fixed.

Helge Hafting