loopback won't enable automatically [SOLVED]

[Daniel Bye]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 07:35:26AM +0000, Pollywog wrote:
> >
> > I did find it in /etc/default/rc.conf:
> >
> > ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1"   # default loopback device configuration.
> 
> I found the problem.  lo0 was not listed in network_interfaces in rc.conf
> Adding it fixed the problem.

Do you have this line in your /etc/defaults/rc.conf?

network_interfaces="auto"       # List of network interfaces (or "auto").

Given your problems, I am highly suspicious that something has spammed
your /etc/defaults/rc.conf...

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