initramfs-tools requires network even though root is local

[Igel Kun]

I am using ATA-over-Ethernet (aoe kernel module), but my root partition is local.
Still, the "aoe"-hook script of initramfs-tools will be triggered, calling "configure_networking", which fails indefinitely to get an IP-address from DHCP on my unconnected ethernet device.

initramfs-tools should detect that my root partition is local and not try to bring up the network before mounting the root partition.

Note that this bug may lock people out of their operating system!

For details, see https://askubuntu.com/questions/1513221

[Igel Kun (igelkun)]

oh, my /proc/cmdline contains:
BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.5.0-28-generic root=UUID=0a928e5f-d8c1-4b2a-9d12-b6d814efcf42 ro apparmor=0

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and contributing to Ubuntu. I am re-assigning this bug to aoetools because the aoe initramfs-tools hook should only call configure_networking in case a network configuration is needed in the initrd.

This bug could be considered a duplicate of bug #2062501.

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

configure_networking tries to configure the network. It takes around five minutes for it to give up. So the boot will take five minutes longer but will not fail.