[Buildroot] RTNETLINK error

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Wed Dec 9 20:04:59 UTC 2009


>>>>> "Ryan" == NEAL, RYAN <RYAN_NEAL at appsig.com> writes:

Hi,

 Ryan> Starting network...

 Ryan> ip: RTNETLINK answers: File exists

  Ryan> And then it hangs.  I looked through the inittab -> rcS -> S40network to find
 Ryan> that it is coming from the ifup call (on the loopback interface?). 

How does your /etc/network/interfaces file look? Do you have an entry
for eth0?

>From the above I assume you're booting from NFS? Reconfiguring eth0
while you're trying to read from NFS isn't a good thing.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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