On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 09:00:03PM -0000, Henrik Ingo wrote:
> Steve, what do you mean invalid?

An interfaces file that lists an interface as 'auto' which will not be
available at boot time.

> What do you mean with unreliable boot sequence?

Not waiting for the configured network interfaces to come up means that any
services installed on the system that require a network will fail at boot
time.  This makes for an unreliable boot.

> I have a laptop. I take it onto a business trip. I want to work on the
> airplane. There is no internet connection within miles. That (K)Ubuntu
> wants to wait for several minutes until it accepts the fact that there
> is no internet is a bug.

That's true, but not because of a wrong design conflating servers and
desktops.  Your boot should NOT wait several minutes before accepting that
there's no Internet connection; the failsafe job is there to make sure the
system continues to boot when something ELSE has already gone wrong.  That
something could be a bug in Ubuntu, or it could be a broken
/etc/network/interfaces file, or some other kind of local breakage.

On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 10:29:42PM -0000, Henrik Ingo wrote:
> FWIW, here's my

> $ cat /etc/network/interfaces 
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback

Please show the output of this command:

$ ls -ld /var/run

>  - I'm actually not sure my system suffers from this bug.

Well, it would be good to confirm whether this is the case currently or
not.

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