[Bug 905828] [NEW] init-bottom/23networking causes 2 minute delay

[ManDay]

Public bug reported:

Caspers initrd script init-bottom/23networking has a piece which causes
a couple of, possibly non-existant interfaces to be added to
/etc/network/interfaces if NetworkManager is not installed, regardless
of whether they actually exist or not.

Writing non-existant interfaces to that file, on the other hand, delays
the boot through the failsafe.conf upstart job for about 2 minutes,
which lives unless shut down due to notice by the static-network-up
event.

if [ ! -x /root/usr/sbin/NetworkManager ]; then
    for i in eth0 eth1 eth2 ath0 wlan0; do
        grep -q "iface $i" $IFFILE && continue
        cat >> "$IFFILE" <<EOF
auto $i
iface $i inet dhcp

EOF
    done
fi

** Affects: casper (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: delay network upstart

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Title:
  init-bottom/23networking causes 2 minute delay

Status in “casper” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Caspers initrd script init-bottom/23networking has a piece which
  causes a couple of, possibly non-existant interfaces to be added to
  /etc/network/interfaces if NetworkManager is not installed, regardless
  of whether they actually exist or not.

  Writing non-existant interfaces to that file, on the other hand,
  delays the boot through the failsafe.conf upstart job for about 2
  minutes, which lives unless shut down due to notice by the static-
  network-up event.

  if [ ! -x /root/usr/sbin/NetworkManager ]; then
      for i in eth0 eth1 eth2 ath0 wlan0; do
          grep -q "iface $i" $IFFILE && continue
          cat >> "$IFFILE" <<EOF
  auto $i
  iface $i inet dhcp

  EOF
      done
  fi

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