Re: networking.service fails

From	Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: networking.service fails
Date	2021-02-17 15:40 +0100
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On 2021-02-17 08:28, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Mi, 17 feb 21, 00:01:01, Gary Dale wrote:
>> On 2021-02-16 19:44, Dmitry Katsubo wrote:
>>> Dear Debian community,
>>>
>>> I am puzzled with the following problem. When my Debian 10.8 starts, the unit "networking.service" is
>>> marked as failed with the following reason:
>>>
>>> root@debian:~ # systemctl status networking.service
>>> *— networking.service - Raise network interfaces
>>>      Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/networking.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
>>>      Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2021-02-16 08:56:16 CET; 5h 27min ago
>>>        Docs: man:interfaces(5)
>>>     Process: 691 ExecStart=/sbin/ifup -a --read-environment (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
>>>    Main PID: 691 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
>> Debian/Busteris still using Network Manager not systemd to control the
>> network so I think the network.service shouldn't be used.
> Well, systemd as init is starting everything so that necessarily
> includes starting "the network", which in practice means starting
> whatever network management framework is in use[1].
>
> The 'networking.service' service is part of ifupdown, Debian's default
> network management framework (Priority: important).
>
> Network Manager is Priority: optional and typically installed as a
> Depends/Recommends of Desktop Environments.
>
> [1] this is applicable even for systemd's own network management
> framework systemd-networkd, which is included in the 'systemd' Debian
> package, but not activated by default.
>
> Kind regards,
> Andrei
Sorry, it was midnight when I replied. However the failure is likely 
still due to the interfaces misconfiguration - probably reporting a 
failure to raise a non-existent interface.

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Re: networking.service fails Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2021-02-17 06:10 +0100
  Re: networking.service fails Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-02-17 14:30 +0100
    Re: networking.service fails Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2021-02-17 15:40 +0100

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