Determining IP information for lo... failed

[Peter Horst]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 10:54 +1000, David Timms wrote:
> > Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > > Peter Horst writes:
> > > 
> > >> When I reboot my FC5 machine, and when I run "service network 
> > >> restart," I get the following error message:
> > >>
> > >> Bringing up loopback interface:
> > >> Determining IP information for lo... failed.
> > >>                                                            [FAILED]
> > >>
> > >> I don't what this means, and why it might be a bad thing.  All I
> > know 
> > >> for sure is that it slows down my boot process.
> > >>
> > >> Here're the contents of /etc/networking/devices/ifcfg-lo:
> > If you meant /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ , I don't have an 
> > ifcfg-lo at all. I just have ifcfg-eth0 in that directory. 
> These files should be in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
>   

Somewhere, somehow, I had gotten the impression that they were supposed 
to be symlinked from network-scripts but reside in /devices - this is 
incorrect I take it?