[solved] Re: Message at boot: `A start job is running for LSB: Raise network interfaces'

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 10:44:29AM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> Hi all Debian users.
>> 
>> On my old Pentium III, at boot, a message similar to:
>> 
>>  A start job is running for LSB: Raise network interfaces
>> 
>> appears for some seconds, accompanied with a sort of red lightening.  In
>> Google I saw some similar cases and they were solved commenting out
>> particular lines in /etc/network/interfaces, but non of them is suitable for
>> my case.  Here's 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).
>> 
>> source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*
>> 
>> # The loopback network interface
>> auto lo
>> iface lo inet loopback
>> 
>> # my wifi device
>> auto wlx14cc20116af7
>> iface wlx14cc20116af7 inet dhcp
>>         wpa-ssid my-ssid
>>         wpa-psk my-password
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> .  I wish that message disappeared.  Please help.
>
> You have an interface configured to use WPA and DHCP. This *WILL* take a
> few seconds. First, your adapter needs to find the Access Point,
> establish a connection and authenticate using the pre-shared key. Only
> once that link is established, can the DHCP sequence begin. This
> involves broadcasting a request packet and then listening for several
> seconds (this is repeated at varying intervals). Once an acceptable
> acknowledgement packet is received, then hook scripts are run to set IP,
> DNS, NTP etc. Only once they are done, can the interface be considered
> "ready".

I see.  But on another machine of mine, I have the same configuration and the
problem doesn't occur.

> You MIGHT be able to hide the message for a little bit by setting the
> interface from "auto wlx..." to "allow-hotplug wlx...". I believe this
> will lower the priority of the interface such that it is not critical to
> the booting of the system. "auto" tells the system that it must bring up
> the interface (and any services that depend on networking will thus wait
> for that to happen), whereas "allow-hotplug" says that the system MAY
> bring up the interface when it appears (however, services that depend on
> networking may or may not have an issue with only 'lo' being up).

This seems to work.  Thanks!

Rodolfo