How to set up static IP in 12.04 and avoid these start-up delays?

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 02:40:21PM +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 12:31:54PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > I have just upgraded a little server system from Ubuntu Server 10.04 to
> > Ubuntu Server 12.04, the upgrade went fairly smoothly and it's basically
> > all working OK.
> > 
> > However there is a very annoying delay has appeared in the boot
> > sequence, while the moving dots display during startup two messages
> > appear:-
> > 
> >     Waiting for network configuration...
> >     [waits for 40 seconds]
> >     Waiting up to 60 more seconds for network configuration...
> >     [waits for 60 secodns]
> > 
> > ... and then the system finally starts up.
> >
> > These delays are in the /etc/init/failsafe.conf script and seem to
> > happen even when the system is properly configured for static IP in
> > /etc/network/interfaces. 
> 
> You shouldn't be getting any delays if that's the case.
> 
> Can you show the contents of your /etc/network/interfaces?
> 
    # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
    # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

    # The loopback network interface
    auto lo
    iface lo inet loopback

    # The primary network interface
    iface eth0 inet static
    address 192.168.1.2
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    network 192.168.1.0
    broadcast 192.168.0.255
    gateway 192.168.1.1
    dns-domain zbmc.eu
    dns-search zbmc.eu
    dns-nameservers 127.0.0.1 195.74.113.58 194.72.0.114

    auto eth0

    # The USB network interface
    auto eth1
    iface eth1 inet dhcp

-- 
Chris Green