[Bug 900903] Re: "Waiting for network configuration" due to uncommented 'auto' lines in /etc/network/interfaces (historical installer/upgradebug?)

[Stéphane Graber]

Ok, so these logs show that when you installed your machine, you had a single network interface, called eth0 at the time which was an Nvidia network card with MAC address:
00:0c:76:7e:fe:89

Nowadays, the only piece of nvidia hardware you seem to have is a graphic card. Your network cards now are:
00:17:31:a2:7d:55
00:17:31:a2:7f:ad

You also once plugged a USB network card in this machine.


So based on this, my guess is that you changed hardware in this machine quite significantly, resulting in the change of network cards.
When you installed your machine, it was a AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ but nowadays it's a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+

When you switched hardware, you should have changed /etc/udev/rules.d/70
-persistent-net.rules to match the new network hardware so that your new
main network card would be assigned eth0 instead of eth1.

The easiest way to do this, is my simply removing all the network
interfaces from this file and rebooting, it'll then get populated again
with the new values.


If what I'm saying above sounds correct and the problem instead started appearing after the change of hardware, this isn't really a bug, it's actually the expected behaviour when moving an install to new hardware (network device names are linked to the MAC address to avoid them switching order between boots).

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Title:
  "Waiting for network configuration" due to uncommented 'auto' lines in
  /etc/network/interfaces (historical installer/upgradebug?)

Status in “ifupdown” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I get the message on each boot. It is followed by "Waiting up to 60
  more seconds for network configuration". After that system continues
  to boot. When loging to KDE network is up and running. This bug
  appeared after upgrade to Oneric.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: upstart 1.3-0ubuntu11
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Tue Dec  6 20:46:27 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=pl_PL:pl:en_GB:en
   LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: upstart
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-13 (53 days ago)

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