Re: ifcfg-lo Error

[Jirka Klimes <jklimes redhat com>]

On Monday 11 of October 2010 14:46:03 Saravana Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If anyone can help me how to resolve the below issue.....
> 
> I am using NetworkManager-0.7.0-3.el5 in REDHAT EL5 server and getting the
> following error periodically
> 
> nm-system-settings:    ifcfg-rh: parsing
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo ...
> nm-system-settings:    ifcfg-rh:     error: Ignoring loopback device
> config.
> 
> How to resolve this....
> 
> Thanks in advance..
> 
> P. Saravana Kumar

The error message is harmless and doesn't cause any problems. It has been 
removed in RHEL 5.4.
References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484060
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2009-March/msg00152.html

Jirka