after utopic upgrade: boot delays for 2 minutes

[Dylan Borg]

After upgrading to utopic, my system waits 2 minutes for network at boot, the boots ok. This has happened in previous releases as well for other people and is an annoying issue which will alarm many people especially the non-techinical users. Also, many fixes described in older bug reports no longer apply as ubuntu does not need them yet the bug is still alive and kicking.
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ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu5
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: Unity
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-11-11 (1062 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
Package: upstart 1.13.2-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcKernelCmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.17.0-rc7-custom root=UUID=239a7bf6-c6d6-468d-90fb-5705e76c8def ro quiet splash crashkernel=384M-:128M crashkernel=384M-:128M crashkernel=384M-:128M crashkernel=384M-:128M crashkernel=384M-:128M
Tags: utopic
Uname: Linux 3.17.0-rc7-custom i686
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UpstartBugCategory: System
UpstartRunningSessionVersion: upstart 1.13.2
UpstartRunningSystemVersion: init (upstart 1.13.2)
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout fuse lp lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev sambashare sbuild scanner vboxusers video
_MarkForUpload: True
modified.conffile..etc.NetworkManager.NetworkManager.conf: [modified]
modified.conffile..etc.at.deny: [inaccessible: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/at.deny']
modified.conffile..etc.bluetooth.audio.conf: [modified]
modified.conffile..etc.default.cups: [modified]
modified.conffile..etc.default.jenkins: [modified]
modified.conffile..etc.init.jenkins.conf: [modified]
modified.conffile..etc.init.runsvdir.conf: [modified]
modified.conffile..etc.vsftpd.conf: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.NetworkManager.NetworkManager.conf: 2013-08-07T17:00:01.738247
mtime.conffile..etc.bluetooth.audio.conf: 2014-07-08T18:53:12.563803
mtime.conffile..etc.default.cups: 2014-04-10T18:37:14.830556
mtime.conffile..etc.default.jenkins: 2012-11-03T21:42:41.983374
mtime.conffile..etc.init.jenkins.conf: 2013-09-13T16:17:44.852882
mtime.conffile..etc.init.runsvdir.conf: 2011-03-17T16:02:21
mtime.conffile..etc.vsftpd.conf: 2012-07-07T13:06:07.102856

[Dylan Borg (borgdylan)]

I have upgraded an otehr machine which is not exhibitng this issues. The other machine has a ethernet and wirelesss nics while the amchine showing the bug only has ethernet.

[James Hunt (jamesodhunt)]

Hi Dylan,

Thanks for taking the time to report this issue. Please can you do the following:

1) Run 'apport-collect 1379021' to attach required logs to this bug report.

2) Attach /etc/network/interfaces (and any files you've created in /etc/network/interfaces.d/).

3) Attach /etc/fstab

4) Add '--debug' to the boot command line in the grub menu, boot your system and then attach file /var/log/upstart/mountall.log.

[Dylan Borg (borgdylan)]

Thanks. I will attach the logs as requested.

[Dylan Borg (borgdylan)]

Also, I used to have a wifi dongle attached to teh machine which is no longer ther. I have changed /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules to no longer include it (problem still persists)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Dylan Borg (borgdylan)]

Where do I add --debug? The Linux command line?

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[James Hunt (jamesodhunt)]

> Where do I add --debug? The Linux command line?
Yes:

1) Hold down control key at power-on to enter grub menu.
2) Press 'e' to edit the top (default) kernel command-line.
3) Use the cursor keys to move down the the line that begins with
   "linux".
4) Press the END key (or use cursors again).
5) Add "--debug" (make sure there is a space between "--debug" and the
   option before it).
6) Press CTRL-x or F10 to boot.

[Dylan Borg (borgdylan)]

mountall.log (without --debug for now):

fsck from util-linux 2.25.1
/dev/sda2 has been mounted 27 times without being checked, check forced.
/dev/sda2: 4127369/60424192 files (0.3% non-contiguous), 76260275/241690368 blocks
fsck from util-linux 2.25.1
/dev/sda2: clean, 4127074/60424192 files, 76263344/241690368 blocks
fsck from util-linux 2.25.1
/dev/sda2: clean, 4127064/60424192 files, 76263335/241690368 blocks

[freak007 (freak-linux4freak)]

I can confirm bug is related to upstart, if i switch temporary to systemd, network-manager is launched fine.

[Dylan Borg (borgdylan)]

Strangely, after purging teh configs of my removed packages (that still had upstart jobs on my machine) I did nto have to wait 2 mins for network while my machine booted this morning. I am hoping that this fixed state keeps repeating.

[James Hunt (jamesodhunt)]

@Dylan - which packages did you purge?

[Dylan Borg (borgdylan)]

I am not sure about all of them. They included Jenkins, tomcat and a bunch of obsolete packages removed by the upgrade

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

It's a usability issue that doesn't limit the functionality of a core package.