On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 10:36 +0300, vaverin wrote:

> as far as I see even loopback device is not configured. It looks like network service has not been started.
> Probably some scripts inside your VE hangs and blocks the the following network configuration.
> IMHO it makes sense to look at 'ps ax' inside VE -- it should show You stalled process.

Thanks for the reply.  In the interim I tried the
contrib/ubuntu-7.10-i386 template and it appears to work fine.

Maybe that one should replace the official ubuntu-7.10-i386 template?

Regards,
Cliff