Bug#791391: NFS mounts and other things fail if DHCP hasn't finished

[Daniel Pocock]

Package: systemd
Version: 215-17+deb8u1
Severity: important

This has been happening on a system that was upgraded from wheezy to jessie

Sometimes systemd starts the network and then tries to start things that
depend on the network (e.g. ntpdate, NFS client mounts) before DHCP has
obtained a lease.

Sometimes the boot completely stops and asks for root login

Sometimes it reaches the X login but if a user logs in, it throws them
out because their home is not mounted.

journalctl also shows errors from other processes that depend on the
network.


Here is the content of /etc/network/interfaces - it was working fine
with wheezy:

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
#iface eth0 inet6 auto
iface eth0 inet6 dhcp
        accept_ra 1

#allow-hotplug eth1
#iface eth1 inet dhcp