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

[Daniel Pocock]

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On 04/07/15 13:58, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 04.07.2015 um 11:38 schrieb 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.
> 
> Is home mounted via NFS?
> 

/home is a local filesystem
/home/username is on NFS

>> 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
> 
> In the end this is a bug in ifupdown. It should ensure to block
> until the network has been configured successfully.
> 
> If you change "allow-hotplug" to "auto", does that help?
> 

I've changed it, I'll see how it behaves on subsequent reboots.  The
problem only occurs sporadically.  Thanks for the fast feedback about
this.

Regards,

Daniel
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