[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#698056: Bug#698056: samba: nmbd fails to start when no interfaces are up

[Christian PERRIER]

severity 698056 normal
thanks

Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon at debian.org):

> If you can only reproduce this by bringing lo down, then the question is:
> why are you bringing lo down?
> 
> The loopback interface should be up by the time the system finishes
> processing /etc/rcS.d and should stay up until the system shuts down.  It's
> entirely reasonable for nmbd to assume this is the case.

And I think we already had such reports, which have all been closed as
invalid.

Any, the severity is overflated, assuming that bug is valid.


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