[arch-general] Can't Connect to localhost/127.0.0.1 until I'm connected to a network

[Aaron Griffin]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Thomas Bohn <thomas at bohnomat.de> wrote:
> On 2009-03-06 16:04 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
>
>> The lo interface is brought up by rc.sysinit right after it processes
>> udev events. Do you, by chance, still have "lo" in your rc.conf
>> INTERFACES array?
>
> No, my INTERFACES array looks like this:
>
> INTERFACES=()
>
> It is empty and commented

Ok, well... if you shut off your network AFTERWARDS, does it block
your connection attempts too? Does /etc/hosts have "localhost" in
there?

At each step of the process, try running "ifconfig lo" to check what's
going on with lo at that point.