F8 Network Woe

[Jim van Wel]

Obviously some machine is still using that ip address. Just ping to that
ip, or do
a arp lookup to see which one (maybe the same machine) to find out!

Greetings,
Jim.

> 2007/12/10, Jonathan Allen <jonathan at barumtrading.co.uk>:
>> Dear List,
>>
>> I have a vanilla FC8 machine that was working into the Internet.  After
>> several hours fighting network manager, I edited /etc/hosts,
>> /etc/resolv.conf
>> and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 by hand and bob was my
>> uncle.
>>
>> Now, after a a PUP run to pull in updates, I can't get the network to
>> start
>> after the reboot:
>>
>>    # service network start
>>    Bringing up loopack interface:           [  OK  ]
>>    Bringing up interface eth0:              [FAILED]
>>    Error, some other host already uses address 192.168.1.6
>>
>> Any ideas ?
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
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>
> did you try to start the machine disconnected from your network???
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