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[Alex Gottschalk <alex.gottschalk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This bug also prevents the mounting of NFS shares on boot, because
rpcbind is unable to start without the lo interface.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1375821

Title:
  ifupdown doesn't bring loopback to state up

Status in ifupdown package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in mailman package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Upon booting a machine with the following setup on a relatively
  slimmed down netboot machine the loopback interface isn't brought up
  properly:

  cat /etc/network/interfaces
  auto lo
  iface lo inet loopback
  iface lo inet6 loopback

  auto eth0
  iface eth0 inet6 auto
  dhcp 1
  #iface eth0 inet ipv4ll

  auto eth1
  iface eth1 inet6 auto
  dhcp 1
  #iface eth1 inet ipv4ll

  Upon boot Loopback is unconfigured:
  root@<hostname>:~# ip addr show dev lo
  1: lo: <LOOPBACK> mtu 65536 qdisc noop state DOWN group default 
      link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00

  Try to bring the interface up:
  root@<hostname>:~# ifup -v lo
  ifup: interface lo already configured

  Bring it down and up:
  root@<hostname>:~# ifdown -v lo
  Configuring interface lo=lo (inet)
  run-parts --verbose /etc/network/if-down.d
  run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-down.d/avahi-autoipd
  run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-down.d/upstart
  run-parts --verbose /etc/network/if-post-down.d
  Configuring interface lo=lo (inet)
  run-parts --verbose /etc/network/if-down.d
  run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-down.d/avahi-autoipd
  run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-down.d/upstart
  run-parts --verbose /etc/network/if-post-down.d
  Configuring interface lo=lo (inet6)
  run-parts --verbose /etc/network/if-down.d
  run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-down.d/avahi-autoipd
  run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-down.d/upstart
  run-parts --verbose /etc/network/if-post-down.d

  root@<hostname>:~# ifup -v lo
  Configuring interface lo=lo (inet)
  run-parts --verbose /etc/network/if-pre-up.d
  run-parts --verbose /etc/network/if-up.d
  run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-autoipd
  run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/openssh-server
  run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/upstart
  Configuring interface lo=lo (inet)
  run-parts --verbose /etc/network/if-pre-up.d
  run-parts --verbose /etc/network/if-up.d
  run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-autoipd
  run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/openssh-server
  run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/upstart
  Configuring interface lo=lo (inet6)
  run-parts --verbose /etc/network/if-pre-up.d
  run-parts --verbose /etc/network/if-up.d
  run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-autoipd
  run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/openssh-server
  run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/upstart

  no change:
  root@<hostname>:~# ip addr show dev lo
  1: lo: <LOOPBACK> mtu 65536 qdisc noop state DOWN group default 
      link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00

  bring it down again:
  root@<hostname>:~# ifdown lo

  And up, but this time with --no-loopback:
  root@<hostname>:~# ifup -v --no-loopback lo
  Configuring interface lo=lo (inet)
  run-parts --verbose /etc/network/if-pre-up.d
  ip link set dev lo up
  run-parts --verbose /etc/network/if-up.d
  run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-autoipd
  run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/openssh-server
  run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/upstart
  Configuring interface lo=lo (inet6)
  run-parts --verbose /etc/network/if-pre-up.d
  ip link set dev lo up 2>/dev/null
  ip addr add dev lo ::1 2>/dev/null
  run-parts --verbose /etc/network/if-up.d
  run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-autoipd
  run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/openssh-server
  run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/upstart

  now it seems like something actually happened!

  check:
  root@<hostname>:~# ip addr show dev lo
  1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default 
      link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
      inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
         valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
      inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
         valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

  All seems fine, everything is working from here on.

  My expectation is that ifup should configure the interface and set
  state to up, and ifdown should set state to down, even though it's a
  loopback that may or may not be magically autoconfigured somewhere
  else.

  And a question:
  If the case is that ifup shouldn't configure the loopback, what should configure it?

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