I think this change may deserve a release note for 11.10, so that people
who have kept an interface in /etc/network/interfaces for some reason
aren't surprised by the long boot.
** Also affects: ubuntu-release-notes
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
+ **** RELEASE NOTES ****
+
+ If a system has network interfaces defined in /etc/network/interfaces as
+ "auto", the operating system will wait up to 120 seconds for those
+ interfaces to be fully detected and configured before continuing to boot
+ the system. Most users of Ubuntu will not be affected by this change, as
+ only servers and dedicated workstations should have network interfaces
+ configured in this way.
+
+ ************************
+
as far as I can understand, the 30 second sleep in failsafe.conf means
that /etc/init/rc-sysinit.conf will start within at most 30 seconds of
'filesystem' and 'ifup lo' having occurred.
I think that is really to small a number. You're only safeguarding
against the case where a user had an entry in /etc/network/interfaces
that where the device was removed or is not connected. Thats a very
rare case. Increasing the timeout to 60 seconds would make it less
likely to have a false positive and have rc-sysinit start early. (Ie,
the case where a dhcp took 35 seconds).
The user will only be punished by waiting an additional 30 seconds in
the case that they have a misconfigured or out of date
/etc/network/interfaces.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: upstart 1.3-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.14-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 2 10:02:10 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
ProcEnviron:
- PATH=(custom, user)
- LANG=en_US.UTF-8
- SHELL=/bin/bash
+ PATH=(custom, user)
+ LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+ SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: upstart
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2010-11-15 (290 days ago)
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