On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 05:34:13PM +0000, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > Anonymous: > >The error message:"A start job is running for LSB: Raise > >network interface (xx sec/no limit)". Where xx is a count up in > >seconds that never ends. > > Greg Wooledge: > >"LSB" stands for Linux Standard Base [...] I don't know what LSB has > >to do with Debian's boot process waiting for the network interfaces to > >be configured before proceeding. > > The systemd doco doesn't cover it. Here you go: > > * http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/233581/5132 > > * http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/326354/5132 > > So xe has an old van Smoorenburg rc script whose description is "Raise > network interface", and that old rc script not completing its work is > the problem.
Neither of those links talks about jessie's specific default script that waits for network interfaces to start. (Which I also have on my system.) Neither do they mention this "van Smoorenburg". So anyway, here's what I have. This is all default jessie stuff, either native jessie install, or an upgrade from a previous version of Debian, I have no idea which: wooledg@wooledg:~$ sudo grep -r -i 'raise network' /etc [sudo] password for wooledg: /etc/init.d/networking:# Short-Description: Raise network interfaces. /etc/init.d/networking:# Description: Prepare /run/network directory, ifstate file and raise network interfaces, or take them down. wooledg@wooledg:~$ less /etc/init.d/networking #!/bin/sh -e ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: networking ifupdown # Required-Start: mountkernfs $local_fs urandom # Required-Stop: $local_fs # Default-Start: S # Default-Stop: 0 6 # Short-Description: Raise network interfaces. # Description: Prepare /run/network directory, ifstate file and raise netw ork interfaces, or take them down. ### END INIT INFO [...] P.S.: no "van Smoorenburg" in the script itself either. wooledg@wooledg:~$ sudo journalctl [...] Dec 05 03:31:18 wooledg systemd[1]: Starting Remote File Systems. Dec 05 03:31:18 wooledg systemd[1]: Reached target Remote File Systems. Dec 05 03:31:18 wooledg systemd[1]: Starting Trigger Flushing of Journal to Pers Dec 05 03:31:18 wooledg systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Prepare console... Dec 05 03:31:18 wooledg systemd[1]: Started Load/Save Random Seed. Dec 05 03:31:18 wooledg systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Raise network interfaces.... Dec 05 03:31:19 wooledg kernel: kvm: disabled by bios Dec 05 03:31:19 wooledg kernel: kvm: disabled by bios Dec 05 03:31:19 wooledg kernel: kvm: disabled by bios Dec 05 03:31:19 wooledg kernel: kvm: disabled by bios Dec 05 03:31:19 wooledg kbd[364]: Setting console screen modes. Dec 05 03:31:19 wooledg systemd-journal[200]: Runtime journal is using 8.0M (max Dec 05 03:31:19 wooledg systemd[1]: Started Trigger Flushing of Journal to Persi Dec 05 03:31:19 wooledg kernel: intel_rapl: Found RAPL domain package Dec 05 03:31:19 wooledg kernel: intel_rapl: Found RAPL domain core Dec 05 03:31:19 wooledg kernel: intel_rapl: Found RAPL domain uncore Dec 05 03:31:19 wooledg kernel: intel_rapl: RAPL package 0 domain package locked Dec 05 03:31:19 wooledg systemd[1]: Started Create Volatile Files and Directorie Dec 05 03:31:19 wooledg systemd[1]: Starting Update UTMP about System Boot/Shutd Dec 05 03:31:19 wooledg systemd[1]: Found device WDC_WD2500AAKX-60U6AA0 3. Dec 05 03:31:19 wooledg systemd[1]: Activating swap /dev/disk/by-uuid/b8d67062-8 Dec 05 03:31:19 wooledg kernel: Adding 4939772k swap on /dev/sda3. Priority:-1 Dec 05 03:31:19 wooledg systemd[1]: Activated swap /dev/disk/by-uuid/b8d67062-82 [...] Dec 05 03:31:28 wooledg networking[373]: DHCPOFFER from 10.76.172.3 Dec 05 03:31:28 wooledg dhclient[514]: DHCPACK from 10.76.172.3 Dec 05 03:31:28 wooledg networking[373]: DHCPACK from 10.76.172.3 Dec 05 03:31:28 wooledg networking[373]: Failed to reload smbd.service: sysinit. Dec 05 03:31:28 wooledg networking[373]: invoke-rc.d: initscript smbd, action "r Dec 05 03:31:28 wooledg dhclient[514]: bound to 10.76.172.109 -- renewal in 1082 Dec 05 03:31:28 wooledg networking[373]: bound to 10.76.172.109 -- renewal in 10 Dec 05 03:31:29 wooledg networking[373]: done. Dec 05 03:31:29 wooledg systemd[1]: Started LSB: Raise network interfaces.. Dec 05 03:31:29 wooledg systemd[1]: Starting Network. Dec 05 03:31:29 wooledg systemd[1]: Reached target Network. Dec 05 03:31:29 wooledg systemd[1]: Starting Network is Online. Dec 05 03:31:29 wooledg systemd[1]: Reached target Network is Online. [...] Given the 11 seconds between the two mentions of "Raise network", which pretty closely matches the countdown I observed on the screen while booting, I guess there's just one instance of the thing, and the first line is when it starts, and the second line is when it finishes (in response to dhcp-client being satisfied).
