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and subject line Bug#810656: fixed in ifupdown 0.8.7
has caused the Debian Bug report #810656,
regarding ifupdown: deadlocks: A start job is running for LSB: Raise network
interfaces
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Package: ifupdown
Version: 0.7.53.1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I am reporting from a different computer because the affected computer
is still deadlocked, but the system information below is largely the
same because both (64-bit Intel) computers have been updated today to the latest
version of jessie after not updating for roughly a month in each case.
I was going to add this additional report to
<https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=754218>, but that one
has been closed so apparently I have to start a new bug report for this
on-going issue.
This fairly modest recent update made the other computer unbootable. The
last message in the boot sequence is
"A start job is running for LSB: Raise network interfaces. (HHh MMmin SSsec /
no limit)
where HH is now up to 3 (hours). Ctrl-C doesn't break the deadlock
and if I type ctrl-alt-del, then the boot sequence is gone through
again until this same deadlock is reached.
>From skimming through the comments in bug 754218 I had the impression
that jessie had been fixed in this regard in the sense that when
deadlocks like this occurred, it would eventually timeout. That
appears not to be the case from both HH being so high above and also
the "no limit" in the message.
So can we have an immediate Jessie fix for that unlimited timeout at
least? A slowly booting machine is far preferable to one that won't
boot at all. :-)
Also, could someone here give clear directions about how to get out of
the current deadlock so I can use that other computer or is a rescue
distro like RIP necessary to get that computer working again? Note
again, ctrl-C has no effect and ctrl-alt-del just reboots into the
same deadlock again.
>From previous experience with this deadlock on my current computer, I
suspect this deadlock was caused because of the following stanza in
/etc/network/interfaces on the currently deadlocked system (with the
pre-up commands commented out on my current computer to avoid the
deadlock).
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
pre-up [ -f /etc/init.d/ferm ]
pre-up /etc/init.d/ferm start >| /tmp/ferm.out 2>&1
The point of those two pre-up commands (which I have used on Debian
for a very long time) was to work around a slight ferm issue where the
configured firewall is put into place by ferm after networking is up,
and I prefer to do that before (on at least non-NFS systems like this
one where /etc/init.d/ferm is available regardless of networking) to
avoid that small gap in firewall coverage.
Up to today's modest update the above pre-up commands were not causing
any trouble on that system (which has a USB stick drive rather than
a normal HD) so I did not comment them out.
Could you advise me how to get the above ferm workaround to work on
non-NFS systems like this one (and also my present one) without generating a
deadlock?
In sum I need (1) a quick fix so the timeout is not indefinite, (2) a
cookbook how to get out of this deadlock without resorting to a rescue
distro, and (3) advice on how to use pre-up like above without
running into deadlock trouble.
Thanks in advance for your help with these issues.
Alan
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages ifupdown depends on:
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii initscripts 2.88dsf-59
ii iproute 1:3.16.0-2
ii iproute2 3.16.0-2
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u1
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+nmu1
Versions of packages ifupdown recommends:
ii isc-dhcp-client [dhcp-client] 4.3.1-6
Versions of packages ifupdown suggests:
ii net-tools 1.60-26+b1
ii ppp 2.4.6-3.1
pn rdnssd <none>
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: ifupdown
Source-Version: 0.8.7
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
ifupdown, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Guus Sliepen <[email protected]> (supplier of updated ifupdown package)
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 22:58:44 +0100
Source: ifupdown
Binary: ifupdown
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 0.8.7
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Guus Sliepen <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Guus Sliepen <[email protected]>
Description:
ifupdown - high level tools to configure network interfaces
Closes: 311054 318577 365114 378506 419139 471926 482405 488315 597274 810656
Changes:
ifupdown (0.8.7) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Impose a 5 minute timeout for starting network services.
Closes: #318577, #810656
* Give an error when trying to up a dhcp interface when no DHCP client is
installed. Closes: #471926, #419139
* Add a section in the manual about extensions provided by other packages.
Closes: #482405, #597274
* Use absolute paths to binaries called by ifup/ifdown. Closes: #365114
* Return an error when trying to ifup/ifdown/ifquery an unknown interface
(unless it is ignored due to --allow or --exclude).
* Ignore SIGPIPE. Closes: #311054
* Update the bridge example. Closes: #488315
* Use the onlink option when adding a gateway route. Closes: #378506
* Also allow the metric option for tunnels and IPv6 interfaces.
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