[Bug 850226] Re: static-network-up event waits for 'auto' devs without a config stanza

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This bug was fixed in the package ifupdown - 0.7~alpha5.1ubuntu5

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ifupdown (0.7~alpha5.1ubuntu5) oneiric; urgency=low

  * use 'ifquery' in if-up.d/upstart rather than parsing interfaces
    manually. This fixes issue where devices with 'auto' but without a
    config stanza would be blocked on (LP: #850226).
 -- Scott Moser <smoser at ubuntu.com>   Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:30:57 -0400

** Changed in: ifupdown (Ubuntu)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Released

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Title:
  static-network-up event waits for 'auto' devs without a config stanza

Status in “ifupdown” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Bug 838968 changed the behavior to block parts of boot waiting for
  'auto' network interfaces to come up, by creating a  static-network-up
  upstart event in /etc/network/if-up.d/upstart.

  There is a bug in that code, though, were it looked only for 'auto' entries in /etc/network interfaces.  If there was a stanza like:
    auto eth0
  then this event would wait for eth0 to come up.
  This differed from the behavior of 'ifup -a' as 'ifup -a' would not wait for that device unless it also had a configuration.
  For example, ifup -a would wait for:
   auto eth0
   iface eth0 inet dhcp
  but not for:
   auto eth0

  It turns out that it is not uncommon to have 'auto eth0' in an /etc/network/interfaces file without a network.
  This was discussed in ubuntu-devel at [1] and then again at [2].

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  [1] http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2011/09/14/%23ubuntu-devel.html#t00:10
  [2] http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2011/09/14/%23ubuntu-devel.html#t16:38

  related bugs:
   bug 850166: ifquery does not respect mappings
   bug 838968: static-network-up event does not wait for interfaces to have an address

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: ifupdown 0.7~alpha5.1ubuntu4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.22.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Sep 14 13:58:54 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: ifupdown
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2010-11-15 (302 days ago)

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