>On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 11:35, Helge Hafting wrote:
>
>
>>Thomas Hood wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Did the "ifdown lo ; ifup lo" trick work?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>You mean the "ifdown -a ; ifup lo" trick?
>>
>>It does not work. I was pretty sure of that, but I now
>>tested it because you asked again, and it did not help.
>>
>>
>
>
>No, I mean the trick wherein you do:
>
> ifdown lo
> ifup lo
>
>just before you do
>
> ifdown -a
>
>That is: after the change, /etc/init.d/networking contains the
>following lines in the "stop" method:
>
> echo -n "Deconfiguring network interfaces..."
> ifdown lo
> ifup lo
> ifdown -a
> echo "done."
>
>
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>.
>
>
Thanks. I've had a little email problem, now fixed.
Thomas Hood wrote:
>On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 11:35, Helge Hafting wrote: d/networking contains the
>
>
>>Thomas Hood wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Did the "ifdown lo ; ifup lo" trick work?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>You mean the "ifdown -a ; ifup lo" trick?
>>
>>It does not work. I was pretty sure of that, but I now
>>tested it because you asked again, and it did not help.
>>
>>
>
>
>No, I mean the trick wherein you do:
>
> ifdown lo
> ifup lo
>
>just before you do
>
> ifdown -a
>
>That is: after the change, /etc/init.
>following lines in the "stop" method:
>
> echo -n "Deconfiguring network interfaces..."
> ifdown lo
> ifup lo
> ifdown -a
> echo "done."
>
>
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. bugs.debian. org/256680. The message containing my second 7371.561. camel@thanatos> .
>If you didn't receive that message for some reason then please note
>that you can review this whole conversation at
>http://
>suggestion had i.d. <1088495900.
>
>
Thanks. I've had a little email problem, now fixed.
Helge Hafting