Using applications while the system is offline

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 09:42:48 +0200,
  David Jansen <jansen at strw.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
> Is there a way to bypass this offline mode so that access to local
> services is possible without the network? It seems the "work offline"
> option in the file menu is not selectable at such moments. Am I missing
> something here?

For firefox, you can use file: urls to reference local files. That doesn't
solve the evolution issue, but might be helpful.

It's odd that you wouldn't even have the loopback interface running. You
might try using 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost for the domain name and
see if that works for you.