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Re: Network services fail on startup

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I had to restart my system, after having set the interfaces to auto, and
everything worked fine.

Generalizing freely, my problem is solved.  It's a great relief: checking
that everything was OK after every reboot was a drag.

Ross

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 2:57 PM Ross Boylan <rossboylan@stanfordalumni.org>
wrote:

> 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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