i removed my 2nd network card to install a diff one and the old kernel didnt have the driver ... so when eth1 tried to startup, i saw this: * Starting eth1 * Bringing up eth1 * 192.168.1.4 eth1: error fetching interface information: Device not found [ ok ] looking into it, net.lo has this little code in run_start(): ! interface_exists ${iface} && /sbin/modprobe ${iface} &>/dev/null the modprobe return should be checked ... if the interface doesnt exist, and modprobe failed to do anything useful, we should bail instead of trundling on perhaps: if ! interface_exists ${iface} ; then if ! /sbin/modprobe ${iface} &>/dev/null ; then eerror "${iface} does not exist :(" return 1 if fi
In CVS - will be in baselayout-1.11.9
Fixed by baselayout-1.11.9
