Package: udev
Version: 0.103-1
Severity: normal

If the system is needs to fsck the root filesystem on boot, and this
takes longer than 120 seconds, and the systems's network interface is
marked as allow-hotplug in /etc/network/interfaces, and is present at
boot, then the following happens:

* udev sees the interface and calls net.agent
* net.agent begins waiting up to 120 seconds for lo to be brought up
* the root filesystem fsck begins
* net.agent times out, complains that lo did not come up, and tries to
  ifup the interface anyway. This fails, since root is read-only.
* after boot completes, the system is not connected to the network

This needs to be more robust. Perhaps net.agent could check to see if
ifup succeeded, and if not, go back to sleep waiting for lo again. Or
something else, but with this as it stands, it's very unwise to deploy
any kind of important system with allow-hotplug in interfaces. (Which is
currently the default; see #403706.)

-- Package-specific info:
-- /etc/udev/rules.d/:
/etc/udev/rules.d/:
total 36
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    39 Dec  5 10:00 
020_libgphoto2_generic-ptp_support.rules -> 
../libgphoto2_generic_ptp_support.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    20 Jun  2  2006 020_permissions.rules -> 
../permissions.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    16 Aug  7 22:19 025_libsane.rules -> ../libsane.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    16 Jun 12  2006 030_ifplugd.rules -> ../ifplugd.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    24 Dec 13 20:11 030_sl-modem-daemon.rules -> 
../sl-modem-daemon.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    15 Jun  2  2006 85-pcmcia.rules -> ../pcmcia.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    13 Jun  2  2006 udev.rules -> ../udev.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    25 Jun  2  2006 z20_persistent-input.rules -> 
../persistent-input.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    19 Jun  2  2006 z20_persistent.rules -> 
../persistent.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29677 Aug 29 17:26 z25_persistent-cd.rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   735 Oct 18 20:49 z25_persistent-net.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    33 Jun  2  2006 z45_persistent-net-generator.rules -> 
../persistent-net-generator.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    12 Jun  2  2006 z50_run.rules -> ../run.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    16 Jun  2  2006 z55_hotplug.rules -> ../hotplug.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    19 Jun  2  2006 z60_alsa-utils.rules -> 
../alsa-utils.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    15 Jun  2  2006 z60_hdparm.rules -> ../hdparm.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    33 Jun  2  2006 z60_xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules -> 
../xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    29 Jun  2  2006 z75_cd-aliases-generator.rules -> 
../cd-aliases-generator.rules
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    12 Nov 28 02:17 z99_hal.rules -> ../hal.rules

-- /sys/:
/sys/block/hda/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda1/dev
/sys/block/hda/hda2/dev
/sys/block/ram0/dev
/sys/block/ram1/dev
/sys/block/ram10/dev
/sys/block/ram11/dev
/sys/block/ram12/dev
/sys/block/ram13/dev
/sys/block/ram14/dev
/sys/block/ram15/dev
/sys/block/ram2/dev
/sys/block/ram3/dev
/sys/block/ram4/dev
/sys/block/ram5/dev
/sys/block/ram6/dev
/sys/block/ram7/dev
/sys/block/ram8/dev
/sys/block/ram9/dev
/sys/block/sr0/dev
/sys/class/drm/card0/dev
/sys/class/input/input0/event0/dev
/sys/class/input/input1/event1/dev
/sys/class/input/input11/event2/dev
/sys/class/input/input11/mouse0/dev
/sys/class/input/input11/ts0/dev
/sys/class/input/mice/dev
/sys/class/misc/agpgart/dev
/sys/class/misc/device-mapper/dev
/sys/class/misc/fuse/dev
/sys/class/misc/hpet/dev
/sys/class/misc/psaux/dev
/sys/class/misc/rtc/dev
/sys/class/misc/snapshot/dev
/sys/class/misc/tun/dev
/sys/class/misc/vmmon/dev
/sys/class/scsi_generic/sg0/dev
/sys/class/sound/adsp/dev
/sys/class/sound/audio/dev
/sys/class/sound/controlC0/dev
/sys/class/sound/dsp/dev
/sys/class/sound/mixer/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0c/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D0p/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D1c/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D6c/dev
/sys/class/sound/pcmC0D6p/dev
/sys/class/sound/timer/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev1.1/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev2.1/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev3.1/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev3.7/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev4.1/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev4.6/dev
/sys/class/usb_device/usbdev5.1/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1/1-0:1.0/usbdev1.1_ep81/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1/usbdev1.1_ep00/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2/2-0:1.0/usbdev2.1_ep81/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2/usbdev2.1_ep00/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb3/3-0:1.0/usbdev3.1_ep81/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0/usbdev3.7_ep02/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0/usbdev3.7_ep81/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb3/3-1/usbdev3.7_ep00/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb3/usbdev3.1_ep00/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb4/4-0:1.0/usbdev4.1_ep81/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb4/4-2/4-2:1.0/usbdev4.6_ep02/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb4/4-2/4-2:1.0/usbdev4.6_ep81/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb4/4-2/4-2:1.0/usbdev4.6_ep82/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb4/4-2/4-2:1.1/usbdev4.6_ep03/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb4/4-2/4-2:1.1/usbdev4.6_ep83/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb4/4-2/usbdev4.6_ep00/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb4/usbdev4.1_ep00/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb5/5-0:1.0/usbdev5.1_ep81/dev
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb5/usbdev5.1_ep00/dev

-- Kernel configuration:


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages udev depends on:
ii  cdebconf [debconf-2.0]       0.110       Debian Configuration Management Sy
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]        1.5.10      Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libselinux1                  1.32-3      SELinux shared libraries
ii  libvolume-id0                0.103-1     libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base                     3.1-22      Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

udev recommends no packages.

-- debconf information excluded

-- 
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