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

[Stéphane Graber]

Yeah, though in this case I don't see how we could have automatically
detected it.

The initial installation (based on kernel versions) was Ubuntu 8.04
which apparently was still writing interface entries in
/etc/network/interfaces even when using Network Manager (we don't do
that anymore).

Now, to be able to automatically migrate that configuration to its
current equivalent (which is to only have the loopback device in
/etc/network/interfaces), we'd need to have a way to know whether the
user actually meant for eth0 to be in /etc/network/interfaces which is a
supported use case currently interpreted by Network Manager as "don't
touch this interface and let ifupdown deal with it".

I'm not completely sure as I don't have any desktop install of Ubuntu
8.04 around (end of support) but I guess if we wanted to fix this issue
we would have needed to put some magic in the 8.04 => 8.10 and 8.04 =>
10.04 upgrader, potentially looking at the installer debconf database or
the install log to figure out whether the current
/etc/network/interfaces is the result of the installer or the result of
someone manually disabling Network Manager.

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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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