Comment 9 for bug 2069391

1. Confirmed diff from packaged cloud-init.service and override
root@lcd-o:~# diff -urN /lib/systemd/system/cloud-init.service /etc/systemd/system/cloud-init.service
--- /lib/systemd/system/cloud-init.service 2024-06-26 18:30:42.000000000 +0000
+++ /etc/systemd/system/cloud-init.service 2024-07-18 21:37:31.201082523 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+# Based on cloud-init 24.2 for Desktop LiveCD
+# Redact sysinit.target from Before, add After=NetworkManager*.service
+# (LP: #2008952)
 [Unit]
 # https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/explanation/boot.html
 Description=Cloud-init: Network Stage
@@ -8,11 +11,12 @@
 After=cloud-init-local.service
 After=systemd-networkd-wait-online.service
 After=networking.service
+After=NetworkManager.service NetworkManager-wait-online.service
 Before=network-online.target
 Before=sshd-keygen.service
 Before=sshd.service
 Before=systemd-user-sessions.service
-Before=sysinit.target
+# Before=sysinit.target Redacted due to NetworkManager.service dbus depends
 Before=shutdown.target
 Conflicts=shutdown.target
 ConditionPathExists=!/etc/cloud/cloud-init.disabled

2. Confirmed override shows up properly via systemctl show same functional cloud-init.service deltas
 WantedBy=cloud-init.target cloud-config.target
 Conflicts=shutdown.target
-Before=network-online.target sysinit.target cloud-config.target sshd-keygen.service systemd-user-sessions.service shutdown.target sshd.service
-After=cloud-init-local.service systemd-networkd-wait-online.service systemd-journald.socket system.slice networking.service
+Before=sshd.service shutdown.target cloud-config.target systemd-user-sessions.service network-online.target sshd-keygen.service
+After=NetworkManager-wait-online.service cloud-init-local.service system.slice systemd-journald.socket networking.service systemd-networkd-wait-online.service NetworkManager.service
 Description=Cloud-init: Network Stage
 LoadState=loaded
 ActiveState=active
 FreezerState=running
 SubState=exited