LSB Raise network interface taking too long

Hello,

During the boot, when it's time to bring the interfaces up, this process takes more than 5 minutes.

The below message is displayed on the screen:

A start job is running for LSB: Raise network interface [5:16]

After the timeout the systems works normally.

I'm using Lenny on a 64bit machine and the systemd init system.

# systemctl --version
systemd 215
+PAM +AUDIT +SELINUX +IMA +SYSVINIT +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +ACL +XZ -SECCOMP -APPARMOR

My /etc/network/interfaces:

# 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
iface eth0 inet static
        address 192.168.1.3
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway 192.168.1.1
        dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1 8.8.8.8

It seams the problem is some race condition that results in a deadlock.

The systemd is waiting for a condition that never is satisfied.

Looking at the journalctl -alb - ( I just printed here the systemd and networking specific messages)

Mar 27 09:50:14 vali systemd[1]: Found ordering cycle on basic.target/start
Mar 27 09:50:14 vali systemd[1]: Found dependency on paths.target/start
Mar 27 09:50:14 vali systemd[1]: Found dependency on acpid.path/start
Mar 27 09:50:14 vali systemd[1]: Found dependency on sysinit.target/start
Mar 27 09:50:14 vali systemd[1]: Found dependency on rpcbind.service/start
Mar 27 09:50:14 vali systemd[1]: Found dependency on network-online.target/start
Mar 27 09:50:14 vali systemd[1]: Found dependency on network.target/start
Mar 27 09:50:14 vali systemd[1]: Found dependency on networking.service/start
Mar 27 09:50:14 vali systemd[1]: Found dependency on basic.target/start
Mar 27 09:50:14 vali systemd[1]: Breaking ordering cycle by deleting job paths.target/start
Mar 27 09:50:14 vali systemd[1]: Job paths.target/start deleted to break ordering cycle starting with basic.target/start
Mar 27 09:50:14 vali systemd[1]: Found ordering cycle on basic.target/start
Mar 27 09:50:14 vali systemd[1]: Found dependency on sysinit.target/start
Mar 27 09:50:14 vali systemd[1]: Found dependency on rpcbind.service/start
Mar 27 09:50:14 vali systemd[1]: Found dependency on network-online.target/start
Mar 27 09:50:14 vali systemd[1]: Found dependency on network.target/start
Mar 27 09:50:14 vali systemd[1]: Found dependency on networking.service/start
Mar 27 09:50:14 vali systemd[1]: Found dependency on basic.target/start
Mar 27 09:50:14 vali systemd[1]: Breaking ordering cycle by deleting job rpcbind.service/start
Mar 27 09:50:14 vali systemd[1]: Job rpcbind.service/start deleted to break ordering cycle starting with basic.target/start
Mar 27 09:50:30 vali networking[745]: run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant
Mar 27 09:50:31 vali networking[745]: Configuring interface lo=lo (inet)
Mar 27 09:50:31 vali networking[745]: run-parts --exit-on-error --verbose /etc/network/if-pre-up.d
Mar 27 09:50:31 vali networking[745]: run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/bridge
Mar 27 09:50:31 vali networking[745]: run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/ethtool
Mar 27 09:50:31 vali networking[745]: run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/hostapd
Mar 27 09:50:31 vali networking[745]: run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tools
Mar 27 09:50:31 vali networking[745]: run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant
Mar 27 09:50:31 vali networking[745]: ip link set dev lo up
Mar 27 09:50:31 vali dbus[726]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Accounts' unit='accounts-daemon.service'
Mar 27 09:50:31 vali networking[745]: run-parts --exit-on-error --verbose /etc/network/if-up.d
Mar 27 09:50:31 vali networking[745]: run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/000resolvconf
Mar 27 09:50:31 vali dbus[726]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1' unit='polkitd.service'
Mar 27 09:50:31 vali networking[745]: run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-autoipd
Mar 27 09:50:31 vali polkitd[832]: started daemon version 0.105 using authority implementation `local' version `0.105'
Mar 27 09:50:31 vali dbus[726]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1'
Mar 27 09:50:31 vali accounts-daemon[734]: started daemon version 0.6.37
Mar 27 09:50:31 vali dbus[726]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.Accounts'
Mar 27 09:50:31 vali networking[745]: run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-daemon
Mar 27 09:50:31 vali kernel: vboxpci: IOMMU not found (not registered)
Mar 27 09:50:31 vali vboxdrv[735]: Starting VirtualBox kernel modules ...done.
Mar 27 09:50:31 vali networking[745]: run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/ethtool
Mar 27 09:50:32 vali networking[745]: run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs
Mar 27 09:50:32 vali networking[745]: run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate
Mar 27 09:50:35 vali kernel: IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
Mar 27 09:50:36 vali networking[745]: run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-autoipd
Mar 27 09:50:36 vali networking[745]: run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-daemon
Mar 27 09:50:36 vali networking[745]: run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/ethtool
Mar 27 09:50:36 vali networking[745]: run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs
Mar 27 09:50:36 vali networking[745]: run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate
Mar 27 09:50:36 vali networking[745]: run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-up.d/openntpd
Mar 27 09:55:28 vali systemd[1]: networking.service start operation timed out. Terminating.
Mar 27 09:55:28 vali systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Raise network interfaces..
Mar 27 09:55:28 vali systemd[1]: Unit networking.service entered failed state.

Booting after a
#systemctl enable debug-shell.service

I could switch to tty9 and when the boot stoped on bringing the interface up I run:
# /etc/init.d/networking restart

The booting process continued from where it stopped, I didn't need to wait anything and the interfaces were configured successfully.

Any idea how to solve that?

Tell me if you need anymore details on my configuration.

Below are some links I looked at before post here.

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards.

Paulo Roberto

PS:

[0] - http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=119326
[1] - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771943
[2] -