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Re: Network services fail on startup

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Thanks to everyone for their help.  Since I am using allow-hotplug, I'll
change that and see if it's enough to cure the problem.

Then I can look into the new filter tools.
Ross

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 4:32 AM Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 06:41:39PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > I am having intermittent problems on startup in which network services do
> > not start properly, generally with messages suggesting the network
> > interface they need is not available. If I stop and start them after,
> they
> > will run.
>
> The number one cause of this is having the interface marked as
> "allow-hotplug" instead of "auto" in the interfaces(5) file.
>
> Edit /etc/network/interfaces and see if your interface is defined in
> this file at all.  (If it's not, then it's being defined some *other*
> way, either by Network Manager, or by systemd, or something else).
>
> If you see your interface marked with "allow-hotplug name", change it
> to "auto name".
>
> The installer thinks every system is some silly mobile/laptop thing,
> so it defaults all ethernet interfaces to "allow-hotplug", even if
> the interface is soldered onto the motherboard and is absolutely
> not "hot-pluggable".  For most desktop or server systems, this will
> be the wrong choice.  And it causes *exactly* the symptom you're
> describing here.
>
>

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Network services fail on startup Ross Boylan <rossboylan@stanfordalumni.org> - 2020-07-14 03:50 +0200
  Re: Network services fail on startup Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-07-14 08:50 +0200
  Re: Network services fail on startup Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-07-14 08:50 +0200
    Re: Network services fail on startup Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-07-14 13:20 +0200
      Re: Network services fail on startup Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-07-14 19:10 +0200
        Re: Network services fail on startup Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-07-14 19:30 +0200
  Re: Network services fail on startup deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2020-07-14 09:40 +0200
  Re: Network services fail on startup Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-14 13:40 +0200
    Re: Network services fail on startup Ross Boylan <rossboylan@stanfordalumni.org> - 2020-07-15 00:30 +0200
      Re: Network services fail on startup Ross Boylan <rossboylan@stanfordalumni.org> - 2020-07-16 02:40 +0200

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