Package: systemd
Version: 247.3-6
Severity: important
systemd-networkd causes issues around services that do not have
"network-online.target" as part of "Wanted=" in their unit file.
For example,
apache2.service has the following under their [Unit] in apache2.service,
"After=network.target remote-fs.target nss-lookup.target"
, this is invalid, as it should rather be::
"After=network.target network-online.target remote-fs.target
nss-lookup.target"
same goes for ssh.service
"After=network.target auditd.service",
should be
"After=network.target network-online.target auditd.service"
and for any other service omitting network-online.target..
. otherwise those services will say "fail" on boot-up.. without any
other further detail.
journactl -xe -u doesn't show any further detail other that the service
failed to "bind" to an address.
^ The ssh service I have set is set to bind to a "specific" interface
that is defined by systemd-networkd's settings in /etc/systemd/network.
(networkctl was shows fully configured interfaces, so there is no issue
happening over here)
The apache2 service is also set to bind to a "specific" interface.
^ By default these services run on 0.0.0.0 -- to run on all interfacaes,
including 127.0.0.1 << which is pretty much ready much earlier. This
explains as to why there is failure when the user defines specified
interfaces later on.
.. whoever is in charge of systemd, should inform other server-package
maintainers to add "network-online.target" as a dependency-check
otherwise those services will fail to start when the user decides to use
specific interfaces.
thanks
