Comment 8 for bug 6841

On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 09:56, Helge Hafting wrote:
> Thank you for the quick response. I don't think this will help,
> it is not some later command missing the lo interface and hanging, it is
> ifdown itself that stops.

OK

Here is another thing that might help. Just before the "ifdown -a"
in /etc/init.d/networking add the following:

    ifdown lo
    ifup lo

What this will do is make "lo=lo" the last line in the ifstate file
and this will cause "ifdown -a" to bring down lo last.
--
Thomas