Confirmed; it was caused by the udev rules update that attempted to only auto ifup/ifdown interfaces with physical hardware. A slight change to the udev rule to behave as we intended (udev has a strange behaviour with S!= rules) fixes this problem and the original problem
** Changed in: ifupdown (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- Feisty boot hangs on "Configuring network interfaces" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/102675 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs