Determining if ip address is already in use for device eth0. how to fix the issue RHEL FEDORA CENTOS

[ OK ]
[root@cluster3 ~]# /etc/init.d/network restart
Shutting down interface eth0: [ OK ]
Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface eth0: Determining if ip address 192.168.1.42 is already in use for device eth0…
[ OK ]
[root@cluster3 ~]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:0C:E4:46
inet addr:192.168.1.42 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe0c:e446/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:325 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:266 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:32433 (31.6 KiB) TX bytes:55836 (54.5 KiB)
Interrupt:19 Base address:0x2000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

ADD ARPCHECK=no

[root@cluster3 ~]# vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE=”eth0″
BOOTPROTO=none
NM_CONTROLLED=”yes”
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=”Ethernet”
UUID=”aaf08461-bf96-4b7a-9ff0-07a5bd8d3259″
HWADDR=00:0C:29:0C:E4:46
IPADDR=192.168.1.42
PREFIX=24
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.1.254
ARPCHECK=no
DNS1=8.8.8.8
DEFROUTE=yes
IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=yes
IPV6INIT=no
NAME=”System eth0″