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Ubuntu 9.04 bug with networking directory creation « RimuHosting Blog.

I ran ifup and got the following errors
root@charon ~ # ifup eth0
ifup: failed to open statefile /var/run/network/ifstate: No such file or directory
… so i checked and /var/run/network did not exist… This link had a bit more technical information. They said look for  the following files and remove them.
/etc/udev/rules.d/85-ifupdown.rules
/lib/udev/rules.d/85-ifupdown.rules

A good solution to a tricky issue after an major upgrade.

While I am a big fan of Ubuntu and I use it regularly on my desktop, its fair to say that I prefer not to use it for server installations. The same things goes for Fedora. Actually just don’t use Fedora . Silly bugs like those above are one of the reasons.

If I had to make a recommendation, it would be for Debian stable or CentOS/RHEL. Both are reasonably easy to use, with great community support. And I find they have a much more more consistent toolchain so that things are less likely to break and are better testing before getting into production systems. Keeping in mind this is for a server.

Mind you, no distro is 100% perfect, and some needs will differ. All YMMV and IMHO