[Bug 482419] Re: 802.3ad interface bonding fails if started too early

[Neil Wilson]

This is confirmed as a failure within 10.04 LTS on boot.

I feel this is a critical bug that shouldn't be in an LTS and the
ifenslave package should be updated with the patch above.

I've added the ifenslave package above to my release archive at ppa
:neil-aldur/ppa

Please SRU Lucid, and look at SRU for Karmic as well.

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802.3ad interface bonding fails if started too early
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/482419
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Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
802.3ad bonding configurations that formerly worked on jaunty are now failing on startup under karmic. After the system has started, restarting networking will bring the bond up correctly. This only applies to bond_mode 4 / 802.3ad, I've tested that switching to bond_mode 0 corrects the issue, and other users experiencing this bug all were using bond_mode 4 as well.

dmesg output fills with "bonding: bond0: Warning: Found an uninitialized port", even after the system starts up and the port should be "initialized"

It appears to occur on multiple drivers (bnx2, e1000 confirmed).

One initially wants to blame the startup ordering due to the switch to upstart, but I believe it is an edge case that hasn't been seen before because we haven't been starting up so quickly that the hardware hasn't had time to fully initialized.

Configuration and output from multiple users is in this thread: 
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8311572