ifdown thinks interface is not up

[Scott Moser]

on 13.04 image on azure
$ cat /etc/cloud/build.info
build_name: server
serial: 20130601
$ lsb_release -c
Codename: raring

A couple things wrong/weird:
 * ifdown says the interface isn't configured (but it clearly is)
 * something ran 'start networking' rather than letting the networking come up on its own as a result of configuration in /etc/network/interfaces and network-interface.conf
 * dhclient is dead (seems to not like the lease response?)
 * static-networking-up has (probably) not been emitted as it would be emitted based on eth0 coming up correctly (through /etc/network/if-up.d/upstart)

I'm moderately surprised that there is not other fallout of this. It seems to work, but I'm sure something is broken by the odd state.

$ ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:5d:43:c5:1e
          inet addr:10.215.48.61 Bcast:10.215.49.255 Mask:255.255.254.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::215:5dff:fe43:c51e/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:16218 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:14676 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:4162337 (4.1 MB) TX bytes:4972499 (4.9 MB)

$ sudo ifdown eth0
ifdown: interface eth0 not configured

$ grep "^[^#]" /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

$ ps axw | grep dhc
49213 pts/2 S+ 0:00 grep dhc

$ for f in /var/log/upstart/network*; do echo === $f ===; ls -l $f; sudo cat $f; done

=== /var/log/upstart/networking.log ===
-rw-r----- 1 root root 511 Jun 10 12:33 /var/log/upstart/networking.log
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.4
Copyright 2004-2012 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:15:5d:43:c5:1e
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:15:5d:43:c5:1e
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPREQUEST of 10.215.48.61 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 (xid=0x6c80cecf)
DHCPACK of 10.215.48.61 from 10.215.48.1
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
Unable to set up timer: out of range
Failed to bring up eth0.
=== /var/log/upstart/network-interface-eth0.log ===
-rw-r----- 1 root root 600 Jun 10 12:31 /var/log/upstart/network-interface-eth0.log
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.4
Copyright 2004-2012 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:15:5d:43:c5:1e
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:15:5d:43:c5:1e
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 (xid=0x51736cc1)
DHCPREQUEST of 10.215.48.61 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 (xid=0x51736cc1)
DHCPOFFER of 10.215.48.61 from 10.215.48.1
DHCPACK of 10.215.48.61 from 10.215.48.1
Unable to set up timer: out of range
Failed to bring up eth0.

$ sudo cat /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.eth0.leases
lease {
  interface "eth0";
  fixed-address 10.215.48.61;
  server-name "RD008CFA013E12";
  option subnet-mask 255.255.254.0;
  option dhcp-lease-time 4294967295;
  option routers 10.215.48.1;
  option dhcp-message-type 5;
  option dhcp-server-identifier 10.119.83.82;
  option domain-name-servers 10.215.48.110;
  option dhcp-renewal-time 4294967295;
  option unknown-245 a:d7:30:6e;
  option dhcp-rebinding-time 4294967295;
  option domain-name "fc18422087cf4e36b4a0e0b20d2d580a.sm3.1804365435.useast.internal.cloudapp.net";
  renew 2 2013/06/11 12:31:18;
  rebind 2 2013/06/11 12:31:18;
  expire 2 2013/06/11 12:31:18;
}
lease {
  interface "eth0";
  fixed-address 10.215.48.61;
  server-name "RD008CFA013E12";
  option subnet-mask 255.255.254.0;
  option routers 10.215.48.1;
  option dhcp-lease-time 4294967295;
  option dhcp-message-type 5;
  option domain-name-servers 10.215.48.110;
  option dhcp-server-identifier 10.119.83.82;
  option dhcp-renewal-time 4294967295;
  option dhcp-rebinding-time 4294967295;
  option unknown-245 a:d7:30:6e;
  option domain-name "fc18422087cf4e36b4a0e0b20d2d580a.sm3.1804365435.useast.internal.cloudapp.net";
  renew 4 2149/07/17 19:01:42;
  rebind 4 2149/07/17 19:01:42;
  expire 4 2149/07/17 19:01:42;
}

$ sudo dhclient -d eth0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.2.4
Copyright 2004-2012 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:15:5d:43:c5:1e
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:15:5d:43:c5:1e
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 (xid=0x68b2909d)
DHCPREQUEST of 10.215.48.61 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 (xid=0x68b2909d)
DHCPOFFER of 10.215.48.61 from 10.215.48.1
DHCPACK of 10.215.48.61 from 10.215.48.1
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
Unable to set up timer: out of range
$ echo $?
1

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: walinuxagent 1.3.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-23.34-generic 3.8.11
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jun 10 15:12:05 2013
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=screen
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: walinuxagent
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)