The behavior previous to Lucid this caused the networking service to fail, but not to make the system hang, you still got to login and fix any mistakes. In Lucid the networking service is a native upstart script, previous releases carried the older /etc/init.d/networking script afaik.
is there a way to make an upstart script timeout after a certain number of failed attempts? -- Mistake in /etc/network/interfaces keeps the system from booting https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/512253 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
