Thanks Karl. This solution from Chris Aumann seems perfect, and I've just deployed it onto our HAPROXY pair. Just restarted udev and networkd, and everything survives as expected now. Much appreciated.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu High Availability Team, which is subscribed to keepalived in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1810583 Title: Daily cron restarts network on unattended updates but keepalived .service is not restarted as a dependency Status in keepalived package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in networkd-dispatcher package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: [Impact] If systemd-networkd is restarted, any VRRP from keepalived are not restored. [Test Case] multipass launch daily:bionic --name tester && multipass exec tester -- sudo su apt update && apt dist-upgrade -y && apt install -y keepalived && echo "vrrp_instance VI_1 { virtual_router_id 33 state MASTER interface ens3 virtual_ipaddress { $(ip addr | grep 'inet ' | grep global | head -1 | sed 's/.*inet \([0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\)\..*/\1.3/g') } }" >/etc/keepalived/keepalived.conf && service keepalived start && # There will be a new IP address x.x.x.3/32 added to ens3 ip addr # Restart networkd. The IP address won't come back systemctl restart systemd-networkd ip addr # Restart keepalived. The IP address will come back systemctl restart keepalived ip addr [Regression Potential] TODO [Original Description] Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS Release: 18.04 ii keepalived 1:1.3.9-1ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64 Failover and monitoring daemon for LVS clusters (From unanswered https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/keepalived/+question/676267) Since two weeks we lost our keepalived VRRP address on on our of systems, closer inspection reveals that this was due to the daily cronjob.Apparently something triggered a udev reload (and last week the same seemed to happen) which obviously triggers a network restart. Are we right in assuming the below patch is the correct way (and shouldn't this be in the default install of the systemd service of keepalived). /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/keepalived.service: --- keepalived.service.orig 2018-11-20 09:17:06.973924706 +0100 +++ keepalived.service 2018-11-20 09:05:55.984773226 +0100 @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ Wants=network-online.target # Only start if there is a configuration file ConditionFileNotEmpty=/etc/keepalived/keepalived.conf +PartOf=systemd-networkd.service Accompanying syslog: Nov 20 06:34:33 ourmachine systemd[1]: Starting Daily apt upgrade and clean activities... Nov 20 06:34:42 ourmachine systemd[1]: Reloading. Nov 20 06:34:44 ourmachine systemd[1]: message repeated 2 times: [ Reloading.] Nov 20 06:34:44 ourmachine systemd[1]: Starting Daily apt download activities... Nov 20 06:34:44 ourmachine systemd[1]: Stopping udev Kernel Device Manager... Nov 20 06:34:44 ourmachine systemd[1]: Stopped udev Kernel Device Manager. Nov 20 06:34:44 ourmachine systemd[1]: Starting udev Kernel Device Manager... Nov 20 06:34:44 ourmachine systemd[1]: Started udev Kernel Device Manager. Nov 20 06:34:45 ourmachine systemd[1]: Reloading. Nov 20 06:34:45 ourmachine systemd[1]: Reloading. Nov 20 06:35:13 ourmachine systemd[1]: Reexecuting. Nov 20 06:35:13 ourmachine systemd[1]: Stopped Wait for Network to be Configured. Nov 20 06:35:13 ourmachine systemd[1]: Stopping Wait for Network to be Configured... Nov 20 06:35:13 ourmachine systemd[1]: Stopping Network Service.. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/keepalived/+bug/1810583/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-ha Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-ha More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

