Bug#882504: gnome-shell: apt-helper wait-online bypasses well-known mechanism to wait for the network to be 'online'

[Michael Biebl]

Am 23.11.2017 um 15:26 schrieb Sam Morris:
> Package: gnome-shell

Wrong package ?

> Version: 3.26.2-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> apt-daily doesn't work on my system.
> 
> Nov 23 13:53:04 systemd[1]: Starting Daily apt download activities...
> Nov 23 13:53:34 systemd-networkd-wait-online[13512]: Event loop failed: Connection timed out
> Nov 23 13:53:34 apt-helper[13510]: E: Sub-process /lib/systemd/systemd-networkd-wait-online returned an error code (1)
> Nov 23 13:53:34 systemd[1]: apt-daily.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=100
> Nov 23 13:53:34 systemd[1]: apt-daily.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
> Nov 23 13:53:34 systemd[1]: Failed to start Daily apt download activities.
> Nov 23 13:53:34 systemd[1]: apt-daily.service: Consumed 59ms CPU time
> 
> I notice that apt-helper.cc has a hard-coded list of network management
> services services which, if running, will be waited on by running a
> service-specific command. Rather than such a cardcoded list, apt could
> make use of the network-online.target, which is the well-known
> integration point provided by systemd for clients to wait for the
> network to be 'online'.
> 
> This is documented at
> <https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/NetworkTarget/>. You
> basically unconditionally wait on network-online.target, and then you
> don't need to worry about which of systemd-networkd, NetworkManager,
> connman, ifupdown, netscript, etc., are actually pulled in to satisfy
> the dependency.
> 
> On my system I use NetworkManager for the ethernet and wireless
> interfaces, and systemd-networkd for virtual interfaces used for
> tunneling and bridging. In this case, the systemd-networkd-wait-online
> command will always time out.
> 
>>From this users' point of view, I have already disabled
> systemd-networkd-wait-online.service in order to configure the system to
> ignore systemd-networkd when considering if the network is 'online'. So
> it would be handy if apt would make use of network-online.target instead
> of doing its own thing here.



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