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

[Steve Langasek]

On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 09:35:03PM -0000, Stéphane Graber wrote:
> 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).

I think your analysis is correct, but I don't agree that it's not a bug.
For NM-using systems, I think we really ought to have cleaned up
/etc/network/interfaces on upgrade at some point instead of leaving
redundant interface declarations there that have now caused problems years
later.  I'm just not sure it's safe for us to ever do this cleanup of
/e/n/i.

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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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