On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 04:42:52PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: > Folks: > > This is just an annoyance, but it really shouldn't happen. As my system is > rebooting, and all the startup chatter echos to the screen, I notice that > OpenSMTPd fails to start. Once I'm logged in, I can start it manually with > no problem. When I look at the failure mode, it appears that it thinks the > "eno1" interface isn't functioning, so it can't monitor that interface.
Are you bringing up eno1 with /etc/network/interfaces? If so, make sure it's marked as "auto", not as "allow-hotplug".