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  1. Bug #6841
  2. Comment #58

Comment 58 for bug 6841

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In , Javier Fernández-Sanguino (jfs) wrote : Re: Bug#254705: Bug#273543: ifupdown: ifdown -a problems when shutdown/reboot

tags 273543 - fixed
tags 273543 - fixed-in-experimental
thanks

> This may be occurring because /etc/init.d/networking is trying to
> deconfigure the loopback interface. You may be able to cure this
> problem with the help of the "--exclude" option which was added to
> ifupdown in 0.6.4-4.9.

Thomas, why do you merge this bug if you have not received confirmation of
it being fixed with the workaround above?

>
> Edit /etc/init.d/networking and change the "ifdown -a" line to
> "ifdown --exclude=lo -a".
>
> Please let me know whether this fixes the problem.

You should wait for the submitter's answer before merging, and, actually,
these bugs should now be reassigned to netbase since the workaround should
be added there (along with a dependency on newer ifupdown version). In any
case, I'm removing the 'fixed' and 'fixed in experimental' tag since they
are not being used correctly.

Regards

Javier