Anybody else seen this? (Submitted as Bug#834376)
Updated to latest debian Sid
After boot is completed we see:
rbthomas@sheeva:~$ systemctl status networking.service
* networking.service - Raise network interfaces
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/networking.service; enabled; vendor
preset: enabled)
Drop-In: /run/systemd/generator/networking.service.d
`-50-insserv.conf-$network.conf
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2016-08-14 17:02:50 PDT; 39min
ago
Docs: man:interfaces(5)
Main PID: 893 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Aug 14 17:02:41 sheeva systemd[1]: Starting Raise network interfaces...
Aug 14 17:02:46 sheeva ifup[893]: /sbin/ifup: waiting for lock on
/run/network/ifstate.eth0
Aug 14 17:02:49 sheeva ifup[893]: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
Aug 14 17:02:49 sheeva ifup[893]: Failed to bring up eth0.
Aug 14 17:02:50 sheeva systemd[1]: networking.service: Main process exited,
code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Aug 14 17:02:50 sheeva systemd[1]: Failed to start Raise network interfaces.
Aug 14 17:02:50 sheeva systemd[1]: networking.service: Unit entered failed
state.
Aug 14 17:02:50 sheeva systemd[1]: networking.service: Failed with result
'exit-code'.
However the interface *is* up:
rbthomas@sheeva:~$ /sbin/ifconfig
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.3.111 netmask 255.255.240.0 broadcast 192.168.15.255
inet6 2001:1234:2d2:1:f2ad:4eff:fe00:3077 prefixlen 64 scopeid
0x0<global>
inet6 fe80::f2ad:4eff:fe00:3077 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether f0:ad:4e:00:30:77 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 6897 bytes 738138 (720.8 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 4556 bytes 427016 (417.0 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 85
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 2 bytes 98 (98.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 2 bytes 98 (98.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
Here is a possibly relevant config file
--------- /etc/network/interfaces ------------
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo eth0
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.3.111
netmask 255.255.240.000
network 192.168.0.0
broadcast 192.168.15.255
gateway 192.168.1.1
iface eth0 inet6 static
address 2001:1234:2d2:1:f2ad:4eff:fe00:3077
netmask 64
--------- /etc/network/interfaces ------------
