F8 Network Woe
Mark Haney
mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Mon Dec 10 16:01:53 UTC 2007
Jonathan Allen wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> I have a vanilla FC8 machine that was working into the Internet. After
> several hours fighting network manager, I edited /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf
> and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 by hand and bob was my uncle.
>
> Now, after a a PUP run to pull in updates, I can't get the network to start
> after the reboot:
>
> # service network start
> Bringing up loopack interface: [ OK ]
> Bringing up interface eth0: [FAILED]
> Error, some other host already uses address 192.168.1.6
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Jonathan
>
Uh, is it possible the DHCP server lease is still active? What is the
status of that IP address? Are there other machines on the network?
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Mark Haney
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ERC Broadband
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