David Wright wrote on 06/24/2017 06:42 PM: > >>> The error message above indicates, that you have network-manager >>> installed and since stretch NetworkManager-wait-online.service is >>> enabled by default (it wasn't in jessie). > > this would suggest a cause. Do you need the network before your login > prompt appears or not? If not, it looks like systemd needs telling that. > I think this just came up in a contemporaneous thread here, but in a > disk-mounting context rather than networking. > Well, some remote disk filesystems get mounted at boot time -- so that obviously needs a functioning network -- but I have no idea whether that happens before the login prompt appears. It is definitely true that by the time I am logged in (which is very fast, since I use i3), the network is up and running. I'll go look at the disk-mounting thread and see if there's something useful there. >>> Now, if you don't actually manage your interfaces with NetworkManager, >>> NetworkManager-wait-online.service might run into a timeout (of 30s). > > You originally wrote "about 30 useless seconds". It is worth stating > whether that is a counted-down timeout period or just an estimate of > a period you have wait. (I'm assuming you've done nothing to increase > the flow of console messages when you boot.) This is a counted-up period. I forget precisely what appears on the screen, but it's a counter that counts upwards; and, strangely, it doesn't suggest that there's a 30-second timeout (it's of the form "<nnn>s / No timeout", or something like that, where the <nnn> increments each second). But when it hits 30 seconds, it does time out and the rest of the boot sequence occurs. > > I have no idea whether the status of eth1 could have any bearing > because I don't know where one makes ones wishes known to NM, > not having used it. Ditto. (At least, "not having used it knowingly".) Nothing is plugged into eth1, and I have never told the system to configure that interface, so one would hope that it would be completely ignored. But I have no idea if that's actually what happens. The error message from NM is singularly unhelpful :-( Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans
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