tags 899002 buster severity 899002 grave thanks Hi,
This race condition bug hit me also with an Odroid HC1. This ARM boards has an Ethernet controller connected over USB. Without this bugfix, the networking service does not wait until the USB hub is initialised and the Ethernet controller is found: root@odroid:~# journalctl --no-pager -u networking -- Logs begin at Fri 2018-06-22 11:11:49 UTC, end at Fri 2018-06-22 11:17:01 UTC. -- Jun 22 11:11:50 odroid systemd[1]: Starting Raise network interfaces... Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid dhclient[331]: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.3.5 Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid dhclient[331]: Copyright 2004-2016 Internet Systems Consortium. Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid ifup[316]: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.3.5 Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid ifup[316]: Copyright 2004-2016 Internet Systems Consortium. Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid ifup[316]: All rights reserved. Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid ifup[316]: For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid dhclient[331]: All rights reserved. Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid dhclient[331]: For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid dhclient[331]: Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid ifup[316]: Cannot find device "eth0" Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid dhclient[331]: Failed to get interface index: No such device Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid ifup[316]: Failed to get interface index: No such device Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid ifup[316]: If you think you have received this message due to a bug rather Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid ifup[316]: than a configuration issue please read the section on submitting Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid ifup[316]: bugs on either our web page at www.isc.org or in the README file Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid ifup[316]: before submitting a bug. These pages explain the proper Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid ifup[316]: process and the information we find helpful for debugging.. Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid ifup[316]: exiting. Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid dhclient[331]: Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid dhclient[331]: If you think you have received this message due to a bug rather Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid dhclient[331]: than a configuration issue please read the section on submitting Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid dhclient[331]: bugs on either our web page at www.isc.org or in the README file Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid dhclient[331]: before submitting a bug. These pages explain the proper Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid dhclient[331]: process and the information we find helpful for debugging.. Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid dhclient[331]: Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid dhclient[331]: exiting. Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid ifup[316]: ifup: failed to bring up eth0 Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid systemd[1]: networking.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid systemd[1]: networking.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Jun 22 11:11:51 odroid systemd[1]: Failed to start Raise network interfaces. For this reason I am raising the severity. Please get ifupdown >= 0.8.33 into testing! -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
