Re: ifplugd (or guessnet) stalls booting at "Configuring network interfaces ..."
H.S. wrote:
>After the upgrade(I recall hotplug was uninstalled
>and udev upgraded), the laptop boot process now stalls at the
>"Configuring network interfaces ..." step. Any idea what could be the
>problem?
I had a similar problem...
>~# cat /etc/network/interfaces.guessnet
># This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
># and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
>
># The loopback network interface
>auto lo
>iface lo inet loopback
># The primary network interface
>auto eth0
Most likely, the "auto eth0" entry is making the system try to bring up the
interface too early...in one case I removed that line, and boot returned to
normal; it will still come up automatically later if you have ifplugd and/or
some kind of network detection program like whereami, laptop-net, guessnet,
etc.
(Don't remove the "auto lo", however, as that interferes with desktop
processes and probably other important things, as I discovered after a lot of
head-scratching!)
Another reason for this problem can be that the names of the physical
interfaces can get swapped around, especially after a substantial upgrade - I
recommend the program ifrename, which allows you to decide what each
interface will consistently be called.
Good luck,
John
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