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Re: networking.service fails



On Mi, 17 feb 21, 00:01:01, Gary Dale wrote:
> On 2021-02-16 19:44, Dmitry Katsubo wrote:
> > Dear Debian community,
> > 
> > I am puzzled with the following problem. When my Debian 10.8 starts, the unit "networking.service" is
> > marked as failed with the following reason:
> > 
> > root@debian:~ # systemctl status networking.service
> > *— networking.service - Raise network interfaces
> >     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/networking.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
> >     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2021-02-16 08:56:16 CET; 5h 27min ago
> >       Docs: man:interfaces(5)
> >    Process: 691 ExecStart=/sbin/ifup -a --read-environment (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
> >   Main PID: 691 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
> 
> Debian/Busteris still using Network Manager not systemd to control the
> network so I think the network.service shouldn't be used.

Well, systemd as init is starting everything so that necessarily 
includes starting "the network", which in practice means starting 
whatever network management framework is in use[1].

The 'networking.service' service is part of ifupdown, Debian's default 
network management framework (Priority: important).

Network Manager is Priority: optional and typically installed as a 
Depends/Recommends of Desktop Environments.

[1] this is applicable even for systemd's own network management 
framework systemd-networkd, which is included in the 'systemd' Debian 
package, but not activated by default.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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