"could not read Auth username from stdin" during boot

[Clon]

Lubuntu boot very slow after last update and sometimes it spontaneously crash and i must re-boot

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: systemd 219-4ubuntu5 [modified: usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.systemd1.service]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-9.9-generic 3.19.1
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-9-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.16.2-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: LXDE
Date: Mon Mar 16 15:46:50 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-16 (730 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.1)
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.19.0-9-generic root=/dev/mapper/lubuntu-root ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: systemd
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-02-27 (16 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 07/25/2005
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F2
dmi.board.name: K8T800-8237
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: 1.x
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF2:bd07/25/2005:svn:pn:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnK8T800-8237:rvr1.x:cvn:ct3:cvr:

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

Thanks for your bug report and help to make ubuntu better. Journal logs will be helpful to know exactly what happens during your slow boot, do you mind pasting "journalctl -b" output here (and eventually boot in debug mode: add systemd.log_level=debug in grub to boot with it).

Please turn back the bug status to "new" once you have attached this, thanks!

[Clon (fillip1)]

Add reguired log

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Your system generally isn't the fastest, so there aren't many obvious gaps, except this blatant one:

bře 18 17:57:26 P-IV ntpd[1174]: Listening on routing socket on fd #22 for interface updates
bře 18 17:58:00 P-IV systemd-journal[268]: Forwarding to syslog missed 50 messages.
bře 18 17:58:47 P-IV ovpn-client[1100]: ERROR: could not read Auth username from stdin
bře 18 17:58:47 P-IV ovpn-client[1100]: Exiting due to fatal error
bře 18 17:58:47 P-IV openvpn[1060]: Timed out

So the timed out openvpn delays the boot by about 1.5 minutes. Do you regularly enter your OpenVPN password at boot under upstart? Can you temporarily disable openvpn and check if boot time is comparable to upstart?

[Clon (fillip1)]

It's been a long time since I last used OpenVPN, I thought that it is already uninstalled.
I turn it off and now boot seems faster not as fast as before update to Vivid but much more faster.

Thanks.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Thanks for confirming. So it seems the issue is that openvpn's start scripts need to be adjusted to deal with interactive auth input during boot.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Since it's not immediately obvious, can you explain to me or give me a documentation pointer how you set up openvpn so that it asks for a passphrase on boot? The Debian package has a much improved systemd integration (but one detail missing as far as I can see), and I'd like to test/fix/port that to vivid. Thanks!

[Clon (fillip1)]

https://wifigw.cis.vutbr.cz/vpn/openvpn-linux/index.php

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

That helps, thanks! Can reproduce now.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

For the record, this is a simple config which reproduces this:

$ cat /etc/openvpn/client.conf
remote vpn.vutbr.cz
auth-user-pass
ca /etc/ssl/certs/spi-cacert-2008.pem
pull
tls-client
dev tap
verb 3

It works when you do "systemctl start openvpn" in a shell, but not during boot.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

The current version already works here with plymouth, but not without.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

With the systemd-ification in https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openvpn/2.3.2-9ubuntu3 this now works reasonably well at least under plymouth.