[feisty] Boot time slow, hangs on "configuring network interfaces"

[Mackenzie Morgan]

Binary package hint: module-init-tools

As of today's (by "today" I mean 04/04/2007) updates, booting hangs on "configuring network interfaces."　I talked to someone on IRC who was having the same problem with spending about a minute or more waiting for that part to clear. After having a 22 second boot time, the huge change in time made me think it was unbootable, but it really just takes a long time. Anyway, I checked /var/log/dpkg.log and searched for "upstart" and "init" as they seemed to be the packages most likely to cause the problem. Upstart was not updated today. The only package which shows up at all when searching for "init" is module-init-tools. I think this is the package causing the problem. There are no older versions in the repos for me to test, unfortunately. Also, I know the problem is not the kernel because 2.6.20-11 and 2.6.20-12 also had the problem (well, that and the 2.6.20-13 is a few weeks old but was fast until today). Unfortunately, /var/log/boot is from February 13 (I don't know why it hasn't updated itself), so I can't show anything from that.

[D. Brodzik (amyrose)]

I can confirm this bug--I see it too as of 4/4/07. I'm also using Feisty with the latest updates.

[Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m)]

Okay, it's not a specific package, it's just the fact that updates should not add a whole bunch of crap to /etc/network/interfaces. 5 extra things were added to mine and it took forever to timeout trying to load them. Can future updates *please* not mess with that?

[Lucas Arruda (lucasarruda)]

For me this is a bug of most importance.
None previous versions took so long to boot with wifi enabled. My Feisty could take something like 20s but takes almost 1min (something like 40s or more).
So it hangs something like 20s just in "configuring network interfaces".
The roaming thing is a great idea, network manager is also really good, but this boot time really annoys anyone.

Thanks in advance. See above.

Roaming is enabled for me for all my network devices and my /etc/network/interfaces is big too, include all the space above the command (five line breaks in the end):

$ cat /etc/network/interfaces

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

auto eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp

auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp

[Lucas Arruda (lucasarruda)]

Here is /etc/network/interfaces because launchpad trimmed the file.