Boot hangs during networking startup that is manually configured.

[Terry]

Boot hangs at /etc/init.d/networking when networking is manually configured. I have to press ctrl+alt+del to continue booting.

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
Codename: intrepid

$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-conf /etc/wpa.conf

Reason this is manually configured rather than using network-manager not only because of preference, but also I need the network up prior to login for kerberos authentication. I have reproduced this issue on several different wireless networked machines.

[Terry (terry-kryogenic)]

I should mention I do not have network-manager installed which is probably where it gets stuck. This was known to cause conflicts with manual configurations in hardy so I do not have it installed.

[Terry (terry-kryogenic)]

Looks like it has something to do with the NFS4 stuff. NFS does however work normally regardless of the errors.

* Reconfiguring network interfaces... RTNETLINK answers: No such process
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:1b:77:27:55:99
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:1b:77:27:55:99
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPRELEASE on wlan0 to 192.168.0.1 port 67
send_packet: Network is unreachable
send_packet: please consult README file regarding broadcast address.
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:1b:77:27:55:99
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:1b:77:27:55:99
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPOFFER of 192.168.0.10 from 192.168.0.1
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.0.10 on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK of 192.168.0.10 from 192.168.0.1
bound to 192.168.0.10 -- renewal in 36975 seconds.
 * Starting portmap daemon...
 * Already running.
   ...done.
 * Starting NFS common utilities
   ...done. <--- Hangs here for a while
mount.nfs4: internal error <--- Eventually I get these
mount.nfs4: internal error

[aesis05401 (aesis05401)]

May be related to this based on your first comment: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nfs-utils/+bug/213444 .

If so, please mark this report as duplicate.