• Bug#264134: Not a bug

    From Daniel Holbach@1:229/2 to Thomas Hood on Sat Aug 14 09:00:12 2004
    From: [email protected]

    Hai everyone,

    Thomas Hood <[email protected]> wrote:
    The new ifupdown fails if ifstate does not exist. This is a feature.
    The ifstate file is created by the new ifupdown initscript start
    method; you won't experience the reported problem if you agree to
    install the new initscript. Perhaps the documentation needs to be
    improved?

    Which of the init.d-scripts were supposed to be installed? There are no *.dpkg-new-files anywhere in /etc/init.d.
    I, then, tried to use /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples/generate- interfaces.pl.gz, because I thought, my interfaces-file was not up to
    scratch - same result.

    The next thing, I did, was adding
    if ! [ -f /etc/network/ifstate ]; then
    touch /etc/network/ifstate
    fi
    to /etc/init.d/networking: now everything works.

    Could anyone of you please tell me, what I am supposed to do, to get it
    working in "the ordinary way"?

    Have a nice day,
    Daniel





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