The overcloud-full image attempts get a IPv4 address stalling the boot process for 5 minutes when non are available (e.g. if using IPv6), this stalls the boot process for 5 minutes until a timeout is hit
Mar 23 12:30:48 localhost.localdomain network[699]: Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
Mar 23 12:30:48 localhost.localdomain network[699]: Bringing up interface eth0:
Mar 23 12:30:48 localhost.localdomain dhclient[868]: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6 (xid=0x5eff4a5b)
Mar 23 12:30:54 localhost.localdomain dhclient[868]: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 (xid=0x5eff4a5b)
Mar 23 12:31:02 localhost.localdomain dhclient[868]: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 (xid=0x5eff4a5b)
Mar 23 12:31:14 localhost.localdomain dhclient[868]: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 (xid=0x5eff4a5b)
Mar 23 12:31:25 localhost.localdomain dhclient[868]: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15 (xid=0x5eff4a5b)
Mar 23 12:31:41 localhost.localdomain dhclient[868]: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 (xid=0x5eff4a5b)
Mar 23 12:31:49 localhost.localdomain dhclient[868]: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9 (xid=0x5eff4a5b)
Mar 23 12:31:58 localhost.localdomain dhclient[868]: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19 (xid=0x5eff4a5b)
Mar 23 12:32:17 localhost.localdomain dhclient[868]: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18 (xid=0x5eff4a5b)
Mar 23 12:32:35 localhost.localdomain dhclient[868]: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 17 (xid=0x5eff4a5b)
Mar 23 12:32:52 localhost.localdomain dhclient[868]: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19 (xid=0x5eff4a5b)
Mar 23 12:33:11 localhost.localdomain dhclient[868]: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15 (xid=0x5eff4a5b)
Mar 23 12:33:26 localhost.localdomain dhclient[868]: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 (xid=0x5eff4a5b)
Mar 23 12:33:37 localhost.localdomain dhclient[868]: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 (xid=0x5eff4a5b)
Mar 23 12:33:45 localhost.localdomain dhclient[868]: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13 (xid=0x5eff4a5b)
Mar 23 12:33:58 localhost.localdomain dhclient[868]: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19 (xid=0x5eff4a5b)
Mar 23 12:34:17 localhost.localdomain dhclient[868]: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18 (xid=0x5eff4a5b)
Mar 23 12:34:35 localhost.localdomain dhclient[868]: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10 (xid=0x5eff4a5b)
Mar 23 12:34:45 localhost.localdomain dhclient[868]: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10 (xid=0x5eff4a5b)
Mar 23 12:34:55 localhost.localdomain dhclient[868]: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 17 (xid=0x5eff4a5b)
Mar 23 12:35:12 localhost.localdomain dhclient[868]: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 21 (xid=0x5eff4a5b)
Mar 23 12:35:33 localhost.localdomain dhclient[868]: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13 (xid=0x5eff4a5b)
Mar 23 12:35:46 localhost.localdomain dhclient[868]: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 (xid=0x5eff4a5b)
Mar 23 12:35:48 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: network.service start operation timed out. Terminating.
Mar 23 12:35:48 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Bring up/down networking.
the boot process then continues and can be reached over its SLAAC address
The default dhclient timeout is 60, centos have changed it in the cloud image to 300 here /bugs.centos. org/view. php?id= 6866
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This was to deal with a amazon specific issue, I'd like to undo this in our images to atleast reduces the impact of this from 5 minutes to 1 minute (the dhclient default)