Disabling network-interface break rc-sysinit compatibility script

[Marco Gaiarin]

I've upgraded an ubuntu server installation from hardy to lucid, moving indeed from sysV-init to upstart.
I use in this server a custom set of iptables script that i run from /etc/network/if-up.d/*, and after rebooting the server nothing seems to work.

After some panic, i've found the culprit: simply my script suppose that interfaces are brought up in the exact order they are written in /etc/network/interfaces (this is a server, clearly they have static ip addresses...), but upstart (better: the network-interface script) instead brought up the interface in mixed/casual order.

So, i've commented out the 'start on' and 'stop on' rows on network-interface.conf, but now the machine boot with correct interface order (and so, correct iptables rules) but with little or no service available.

Again, some panic, some work and i've found that the ''sysv compatibility scripts'' depends only on dynamic interfaces, not static ones.

Patch attached that solve the problem. Thanks.

PS: i've tried to read the upstart documentation to understand if there's a better way to ''serialize'' network interface brought up. So probably my patch solve my problem in a wrong way. Please, say me if it is the case...

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[Evan Broder (broder)]

Hi Marco -

Thanks for your patch. We've actually already modified the rc-sysinit job in Oneiric to delay running legacy init.d jobs until after networking was up via the new /etc/init/failsafe.conf job. I'm going to mark this bug as a duplicate of that one.

[Marco Gaiarin (marcogaio)]

Ok, many thanks. Note thate i've posted the WRONG patch, it is not 'starting networking' but 'started networking', as stated in #580319; i've simply make the patch against the wrong file (a previous test), sorry. So, i post comment here.

I've seen #580319, but still i have some trouble caused by openvpn, and some other services that depends on openvpn interfaces bought up.
But i don't define the openvpn interfaces on /etc/network/interfaces file, so probably will suffices to add stanzas to that file.

I will do some tries and report there. Tnx.