On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 07:05:26PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 12:21:50AM +1000, David wrote: > > I'm just building a brand new Ubuntu server box. Unfortunately I put in > > the wrong address for the nameserver so I changed it manually (edited > > /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/network/interfaces) and now if I restart > > networking I lose the eth0 connection completely! ie, ifconfig only shows > > loopback. > > > > If I completely reboot the machine, eth0 comes back and works fine until > > the next time I restart networking :( > > > > Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong? > > Check that /etc/network/interfaces contains the line > > auto eth0 > > I've had some problems with machines not having that line in there, and > having exactly the problems you're reporting.
That appears to be exactly the problem. It's curious that Hoary desktop puts it there, but Hoary server doesn't. thanks.... David. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
