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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:06:53 +0000
From: Scott Ashcroft <scott.ashcroft@talk21.com>
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To: Gordon Sadler <gbsadler1@lcisp.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.2.19ac-pre9 lo interface Broke
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Gordon Sadler wrote:
> 
> I have some further info here.
> I performed strace on ifup -a and ifdown -a.
> 
> They aren't more than 4Kb each, but I'll cut and paste what appear to be
> most relevant:
> 
> ifup.strace:
> fork()                                  = 17974
> wait4(17974, [WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0], 0, NULL) = 17974
> --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) ---
> fork()                                  = 17976
> wait4(17976, SIOCSIFADDR: Bad file descriptor
> lo: unknown interface: Bad file descriptor
> lo: unknown interface: Bad file descriptor
> [WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 255], 0, NULL) = 17976
> --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) ---
[snip]
> 
> Can anyone point a finger?

Debian bug #85774
http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=85774

ifconfig broke, nothing to do with the kernel.

Cheers,
Scott
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